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NGC4988
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:9:54.2
Declination: -43:6:20
Constellation: CEN
Visual Magnitude: 13.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, E, r
Sub-type: S0-a
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4988
13.1" (2/19/04 - Costa Rica): at 166x appears fairly faint, moderately large, very elongated 4:1 SSW-NNE, 1.2'x0.3', broad weak concentration. Forms the southern vertex of a thin isosceles triangle with two mag 9-10 stars 2.8' NNW and 2.8' N. Located 32' W of NGC 5011 and 23' NW of mag 5.2 HD 114474 in the NGC 5011 cluster (outlying member of the Centaurus cluster or in a group surrounding the Centaurus cluster = AGC 3526).