NGC 4153 seems to be there too. On a more serious note, NGC 4147 isn't
especially dim. I logged it from Montebello in 2003.
>From: Mark Wagner ^lt;mark.wagner_at_resource-intl.com>
>Date: Thu Mar 20 2008 - 11:21:32 MST
>I was putting together an observing list for next 3rdQ/NM, and found
it >includes quite a few nice Arp and Hickson catalog entries, some
>excellent edge-on galaxies and big Abell galaxy clusters. But I also
>ran into a globular cluster, NGC 4147 - described as "Moderately
>bright, fairly small, irregular 2'-2.5' diameter,very small bright
>core." OK, nice for a >change after a bunch of galaxies. But, looking
>at Megastar, it seems to be a foreground object >to ESO 287-23, which
>would be quite a stretch on its own, at 16.5 (0.8'x0.2'). Still, I was
>curious, so I looked at the DSS image, and, how do they know there's a
>galaxy there!?!? Check it out!
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