Object: Galaxy NGC 4450 Constell: COM RA: 12h 28.49m Decl: +17° 05.1' Epoch: 2000 Mag: 10.0m (v) Size: 5.3'x3.9' Type: SA(s)ab Observer: Jere Kahanpää Obs. place: Hartola, Finland Date/Time: 8./9.4.1996, 00.25 Telescope: N 205/1000 Magn: 133x Filter: Field: 22' NE Lim.mag: 6.2m Background sky: Seeing: 2 Weather: +0 °C, no Moon. Brightness: 2 Alt: Description: A quite large and bright galaxy, easy at 40x. 133x: A mag. 13 stellar clore in a somewhat brighter middle. Size about 4'x3'. Diffuse. The brighter middle is elongated N-S and very faint extensions were suspected arcing W of the ends of the central brightening. Slightly asymmetrical, the E edge being closed to the nucleus and slightly less diffuse.