Object: Galaxy cluster ABELL 1656               Constell: COM

RA: 12h 59.3m           Decl: +28° 01'          Epoch: 2000
Mag: 11.0m              Size: 120'              Type: 1

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Hartola, Finland
Date/Time: 11./12.4.1993, 01.40

Telescope: N 205/1000
Magn: 126x              Filter:
Field: 30'              NE Lim.mag: 6.2m   
Background sky: 1-2        Seeing: 2  
Weather: Very good.                          

Brightness:            Alt:    
Description: The brightest galaxy in the field is 
NGC 4874 (11.6m(v), 2'x2', E0+, Br3): Strongly concentrated but
no stellar nucleus. 

NCG 4889 (11.5m(v), 2.9'x1.9', E4+, Br3): Elliptical 2:3,
slightly concentrated towards a faint stellar nucleus. 

NGC 4864 (13.5m(v), 0.6'x0.3', E2, Br5): 4' W of NGC 4874. Very
faint, but the nonstellar core is quite easy. Elliptical. 

NGC 4898 (13.5m(v), Ep, Br5): Stellar, mag. 14.5.
NGC 4873 (14.0m(v), 0.8'x0.6', SA0, Br5): Stellar, very faint. 
NGC 4871 (14.1m(v), 0.7'x0.5', SA0, Br5): Stellar, very faint
but slightly brighter than -73.