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NGC4993
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:9:47.6
Declination: -23:23:2
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: E/SB0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4993 = NGC 4994. I do not know where JH's incorrect declination for this
observation of N4994 came from, but it is 50 arcmin too far north (his father
got the right position for the galaxy). Whatever happened, JH's observation
fits exactly in RA and in its description of the galaxy, so I am confident of
the identity. There is nothing at JH's position.
LEDA has picked up a galaxy too faint and small for JH to have seen, and it is
well off his position by non-digit amounts (21 seconds of time and 4.3
arcmin).
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4993
17.5" (4/13/96): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 1.0' diameter. Pretty symmetrical appearance increasing to a 30" brighter core and a 10" nucleus. Located 5.3' WNW of mag 8.5 SAO 181423 and 20' SE of mag 5 Psi Hydrae.