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NGC4785
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:53:27.1
Declination: -48:44:59
Constellation: CEN
Visual Magnitude: 12.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, R, glbM
Sub-type: Sb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4785
14" (4/2/16 - Coonabarabran, 160x): moderately bright, elongated 3:1 ~E-W, 0.9'x0.3', high surface brightness. Contains a small bright core and a bright stellar or quasi-stellar nucleus (this is a Sy2 galaxy). A mag 13.8 star is just off the west side [58" from center] and a mag 15 star is 1.3' SW. Several brighter stars are to the north of the galaxy including a mag 10.8 star 4.5' NW, a mag 10.6 star 6' N and a mag 11 star 4.3' NNE. Located 12' NNE of mag 4.3 HD 111915. It helped to place this annoyingly bright star outside the field. NGC 4785 is situated 2¡ NW of the large spiral NGC 4945.