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NGC 4767
NGC 4767, ESO 323-36, LEDA 43845, MCG-06-28-023, SGC 125107-3926.6, h 3436, GC 3281
Type: galaxy (in cluster), E
Mag: B=12.63, V=11.53
Size: 2.691′ x 1.318′
PA: 0°
Historical observations
John Herschel (1847) Cape Observations
Discovered by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope with an 18-inch f/13 speculum telescope. He recorded it as "bright, small, slightly elongated, pretty suddenly much brighter in the middle; 25 arcseconds. Wind violent." On a second occasion he called it "pretty faint, small,round, not 1st class." His final observation recorded it as "pretty bright, pretty large, slightly elongated, gradually much brighter in the middle; 40 arcseconds."
Published comments
Burnham's Celestial Handbook
Burnham calls this a 12.8 mag elliptical galaxy in Centaurus, 0.8' x 0.4', bright, pretty small, slightly elongated and brighter in the middle.
de Vaucouleurs, G. (1956)
De Vaucouleurs (1956) "Survey of bright galaxies south of -35° declination", Mem. Mount Stromlo, No. 13. (photographic study, plates taken with the 30-inch Reynolds reflector, 20-inch diaphragm).
NGC 4767C is first described in this publication, as " Measures 0.7x0.4. Double?"
Sandage (1975)
Sandage (1975(Astrophysical Journal, 202, 563-582) notes that this galaxy is a member of the Centaurus Cluster. Members include NGC 4645, NGC 4677, NGC 4683, NGC 4696, NGC 4706, NGC 4709, NGC 4743, NGC 4744 & NGC 4767.
Sulentic & Tifft (1973)
The RNGC (Sulentic and Tifft 1973) notes that this is a 13.0 mag galaxy. Their coded description reads E,BM,SLEL,DIFHALO KN SUSP IN HALO.
Modern observations
Brian Skiff
ESO-LV: pa130.
15cm - mod f, hisfcbr. 1'.2x0'.4 in pa135 w/mod sharp concen to *ar nuc. BS, 27Feb1990, LCO.
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