Galaxy
NGC 4395 (NGC4395)
In Canes Venatici (CVn) • Magnitude 10.3 • 4.2 arcminutes
Open the free AstroPlanner with NGC 4395 pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
Low-surface-brightness spiral in Canes Venatici with an active nucleus.
NGC 4395 at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 4395 |
| Type | Galaxy |
| Constellation | Canes Venatici (CVn) |
| Right ascension | 12h 25m 49s |
| Declination | +33° 32' 49" |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.30 |
| Surface brightness | 21.7 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 4.2 × 1.4 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 79° |
| Best imaging months | Mar, Apr, May |
How to image NGC 4395
NGC 4395 sits in the constellation Canes Venatici at right ascension 12h 25m 49s and declination +33° 32' 49". 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 4395 needs the darkest skies you can find: surface brightness, not just apparent magnitude, drives whether it will lift out of the gradient.