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NGC20

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 0:9:32.6
Declination: +33:18:32
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1857
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational


Summary description: F, * 10 att
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 20 is also = NGC 6 (which see). NGC 20's original NGC position is correct.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 20 17.5" (10/17/87): fairly faint, very small, round, small bright core, stellar nucleus. A mag 11 star is just 30" E and a brighter mag 10 star lies 2.4' E. Second of three with NGC 13 12' NW.