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NGC4314

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:22:31.8
Declination: +29:53:45
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 10.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cB, L, E 150° ±, sbM, * np
Sub-type: SBa

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4314.  See NGC 4317.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4314

17.5" (4/25/98): fairly bright, fairly large, elongated ~3:1 NNW-SSE, ~3'x1'.  The halo fades at the tips and rises fairly abruptly to an oval core.  A mag 13 star is at the northwest tip and a mag 14/15 star is embedded on the southeast side.  The observation was hampered by poor transparency and the faint outer halo of this barred spiral was not seen.