Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9226
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M.64 the Black Eye Galaxy
Date
21 April 1833
Creator
John Frederick William Herschel (1792 - 1871, British) , Astronomer
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height (drawing): 86mm
width (drawing): 98mm
width (drawing): 98mm
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Description
Plate 10 figure 27 for the paper "Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty-feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833", by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.123 (1833), pp.359-505. Inscribed verso, in pencil "Mess[ier]. 64 near Gamma Comae" with right ascension and North polar distance. Also inscribed "Sweep 424 and obs. of Apl 21 1833".
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