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NGC4982
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:8:46.1
Declination: -10:35:17
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1878
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S
Sub-type: *4
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4982 is probably the asterism of four stars just southwest of the NGC
position. Tempel says of it (in a free translation by me using Google
Translate), "I have often seen over the years a small nebula shown on
Chacornac's chart, but I could not measure it with the ring micrometer; it's
position on the chart is 13h 01m 08s -9d 47m." Assuming that Chacornac's
chart has an equinox of 1850, this precesses to 13h 01m 39s, 99d 50m
(1860 NPD), seven seconds of time off the NGC position. Ignoring the small RA
error, the only "nebulous" object in the vicinity is the asterism. I've taken
that as the NGC object, lacking any other reasonable candidate.