Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9236
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V.24 galaxy in Coma Berenices
Date
1833
Creator
John Frederick William Herschel (1792 - 1871, British) , Astronomer
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height (drawing): 87mm
width (drawing): 98mm
width (drawing): 98mm
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Description
Plate 12 figure 37 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. A study of the edge-on galaxy V.24 [NGC 4565] in Coma Berenices. Inscribed verso, in ink, "V.24...sweeps 407; 343 &c." With right ascension and North polar distance.
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