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NGC4847

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:58:28.9
Declination: -13:8:28
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S neb *, * 9 p 40s on parallel
Sub-type: E2

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4847 is a galaxy with a brighter star superposed.  Tempel does not give a 
position, or even much of a description, but simply says, "... on the parallel 
of the comparison star [for NGC 4838] [is] a small nebulous star."  At least 
he names the comparison star (Lamont 1243), so Dreyer was able to give the 
north polar distance.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4847

17.5" (6/11/88): extremely faint and small or stellar.  This galaxy hides on the SW side of mag 13.5-14 star which makes detection very difficult and just suspected several times.  Located 10' E of a mag 9 star (double star 8.8/9.0 at 2" separation).