Andrew Cooper
Jul 18, 2023    Oregon Star Party, Ochoco Mts, OR (map)
25cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Holoholo @ 71x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Large, bright and obvious, about 10' x 2' extended east to west, an odd assymetrical shape, wider on eastern end, gives the moniker Whale Galaxy, no structure noted, no core obvious, a 12th magnitude star on the northern margin near the center of the span, a very faint 1' circular haze further away from the northern margin is NGC 4627 the interacting companion

Andrew Cooper
Mar 2, 2011    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A beautiful slash of light across the field, 15'x3', wider on the eastern end, modest core, the entire structure shows mottling, a 12mag star adjacent to the core on the north side, NGC4627 is a 1' fuzzy 3' north of the core

Andrew Cooper
Jun 7, 2005    Whipple Obs., Green Valley, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Large!! a long spindle with tapered ends, no dust lane, mottled central region, a particularly bright knot just east of center, a 13th magnitude star just north of center, companion NGC4627 just off north edge of halo

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

Very long ray (D'A. 13'). A small star p, and beyond it a small nebula. [NGC4627] Lick photo shows two nebula, probably joined.

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

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