Galaxy
NGC 4214 (NGC4214)
In Canes Venatici (CVn) • Magnitude 9.8 • 6.8 arcminutes
Open the free AstroPlanner with NGC 4214 pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
Starburst dwarf galaxy in Canes Venatici.
NGC 4214 at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 4214 |
| Type | Galaxy |
| Constellation | Canes Venatici (CVn) |
| Right ascension | 12h 15m 39s |
| Declination | +36° 19' 37" |
| Apparent magnitude | 9.80 |
| Surface brightness | 22.9 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 6.8 × 5.3 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 81° |
| Best imaging months | Mar, Apr, May |
How to image NGC 4214
NGC 4214 sits in the constellation Canes Venatici at right ascension 12h 15m 39s and declination +36° 19' 37". To frame and integrate it well, AstroPlanner will compute the optimal moonless window for tonight from your location, the field-of-view fit against your sensor and focal length, the suggested total integration time given your aperture and sky Bortle class, and a cloud-aware schedule that drops it from the plan if your nearest cloud forecast spike overlaps the best altitude window. As a galaxy, NGC 4214 needs the darkest skies you can find: surface brightness, not just apparent magnitude, drives whether it will lift out of the gradient.