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NGC9
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:8:54.5
Declination: +23:49:4
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude: 13.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Struve O.
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 15.0
Observational
Summary description: F, R, * 9, 10 sf
Sub-type: Sb/P
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 9 is a peculiar spiral with a bright blue patch on its southern arm, found
by Otto Struve. Though Struve's position is about 3 arcmin off, his
measurement of the star 6 arcmin east of the galaxy insures the
identification. See NGC 8 for more on Struve's observations.
This galaxy may be a ring galaxy similar to NGC 985, though seen almost
edge-on. The SDSS image (see e.g. Courtney Seligman's pages) doesn't conflict
with this idea, though my initial thought that the blue knot on the southern
side is an interacting companion now seems far less likely.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 9
17.5" (11/14/87): faint, small, slightly elongated ~N-S, weak concentration. Located at the western vertex of an isosceles triangle with two mag 9 stars 6' E and 6.5' NE.