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NGC4924

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:2:12.9
Declination: -14:58:9
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: cF, L, vlE 45° ±
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4924

18" (6/4/05): fairly faint, small, 0.5' diameter, irregularly round, slightly brighter corre.  With direct vision a very faint stellar nucleus is intermittently visible or an extremely faint star is superimposed.  A small triplet of mag 13/14 stars lies 3.5'-4' SE and a mag 10.2 star is in the same direction 6.2' SE.  Forms a pair with MCG -02-33-093 5.7' NNW.