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NGC4707

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:48:23.2
Declination: +51:9:48
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: S, stellar
Sub-type: Sm

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4707 = DDO 150 has a superposed star near the center.  From WH's terse
description, "S, stellar," it's obvious that he saw the star and just a bit of
the galaxy.  So, I've assigned the position of the star to WH's "NGC 4707", 
and provided another entry for "NGC 4707 gal" to represent the low surface 
brightness dwarf galaxy that we now see behind the star.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4707

18" (3/30/05): very unusual appearance to this magellanic spiral as all I could detect was a moderately large (~1.5') very low surface brightness glow with no concentration surrounding what appeared to be a mag 13 star.

On the DSS image the galaxy is mostly offset to the west side of the star.