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NGC4563
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:36:12.6
Declination: +26:56:30
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 14.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: F, vS, R, mbM
Sub-type: S
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4563. This was found by d'Arrest whose two micrometrically measured
positions are very good; the average is used in the NGC. CGCG still applied
the number to the wrong galaxy (IC 3556). Nilson copied this identification
into the UGC notes for NGC 4556 (= UGC 7765), but transposed two numbers so
that his identification is doubly incorrect: "N4536"! Wolf's identification
in the Konigstuhl Nebel-List No. 4 is correct.
The galaxy itself has two stars superposed on the west side. I had earlier
noted one of these as a possible companion when I looked at this on the DSS,
but on the more recent sky surveys, it is clearly a star.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4563
18" (5/12/07): faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, stellar nucleus. A very faint star appears to be at the west edge. Comparable in brightness to NGC 4558 located 5.4' NW. Located in a small knot of galaxies with NGC 4556 6' WSW.
18" (4/5/03): faint, extremely small, round, 10"-15" diameter. Appears to have a mag 14.5 star superimposed on the west edge or a fairly bright offset stellar nucleus.