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NGC4797

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:54:55.3
Declination: +27:24:46
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S, R, lbM
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4797 is almost certainly NGC 4798.  D'Arrest saw the two nebulae on
different nights.  His positions are also close enough (same RA, 5 arcmin
difference in Dec) that the two would make a striking pair that surely would 
have merited a comment from him -- he does not mention other nebulae near the 
ones he saw.  So, the identity seems pretty clear.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4797

See observing notes for NGC 4798.