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NGC 4918 (also PGC 44934) is a magnitude +14.4 spiral galaxy located 452 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.
In the sky it can be found roughly 5' northeast of the galaxy NGC 4915, and to the south of the magnitude +10.95 star TYC 4960-1086-1.

The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1885-6.

Right Ascension 13h 01m 50.7s, Declination Dec -04° 30' 02"



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