NGC 4844

NGC 4844 is a roughly 15 mag bright star in the constellation of Virgo ( right ascension : 12: 58: 08.4; declination : -13: 04: 46). On April 19, 1882, when Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel observed it, it was mistaken for a galaxy and thus got an entry in the catalog.

Web links

• NGC 4844. DSO Browser, accessed February 18, 2015 . 
• Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 4800 - 4849. Retrieved February 18, 2015 . 
• Hartmut Frommert: Revised NGC Data for NGC 4844. SEDS, accessed on February 18, 2015 (English). 
• Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 4844. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on February 18, 2015 .