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NGC4991

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:9:15.2
Declination: +2:20:54
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4991

18" (5/16/09): extremely faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, requires averted vision to view.  A nice elongated group of 4 brighter stars (including mag 8.2 HD 114191) and some fainter stars lies ~12' S.