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NGC4796
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:55:4.6
Declination: +8:4:1
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, eS, alm stell, close f h 1474
Sub-type: C
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4796. In an earlier list, I called this a star. It is not. It is a
compact galaxy superposed on, and interacting with, the eastern arm of NGC
4795. There is no doubt about the identification (Marth places it close
following NGC 4795), and though the object looks pretty stellar on the blue
POSS1, it is clearly elongated on the red plate (hence on the DSS), as well as
on the DSS2 images. My apologies for the confusion.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4796
17.5" (4/4/92): contact pair with brighter NGC 4795. Very faint, extremely small, slightly elongated, faint stellar nucleus. This object is attached at the east side of the halo of NGC 4795.