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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

===== 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.