NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
(This is a very very beta version)
NGC4867
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:59:15.5
Declination: +27:58:14
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 14.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, stellar, f h 1500
Sub-type: E3
Corwin's Notes
=====
NGC 4867. Both this and NGC 4864 (which see) may have been one of a pair of
galaxies seen in the core of the Coma Cluster by WH (the other is certainly
NGC 4874, which also see). It's much more likely, though, that WH's object is
simply NGC 4864.
NGC 4867 was certainly seen by Bigourdan (it is his "nova" number 62), so it
seems reasonable to credit the discovery to him. Note, however, that the
signs of his offsets printed in his big table of observations in both RA and
Dec are incorrect -- he has NGC 4867 northwest of NGC 4864 (his comparison
object with a position from Kobold) rather than southeast. The size of his
offsets, however, is exactly right -- 2.25 seconds and 23.7 arcseconds from
NGC 4864 -- only the signs are wrong.
Steve's Notes
=====
NGC 4867
18" (4/20/12): faint, small, round, 16" diameter. Fainter of a close pair with NGC 4864 36" NW. The pair is located about 5' WNW of NGC 4874 in the core of the Coma cluster.
17.5" (4/21/90): very faint, extremely small, round. Forms a double system with NGC 4864 off the NW edge 40" from center. Located 4.5' W of NGC 4874 in the core of AGC 1656.
13" (5/14/83): very faint, small, round, very close pair with NGC 4864. Located 5' WNW of NGC 4874, AGC 1656.