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NGC69

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 0:18:20.4
Declination: +30:2:26
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 14.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1855
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational


Summary description: eF, vS, R
Sub-type: E/SB0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 69. See NGC 67.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 69 24" (9/15/12): faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, bright quasi-stellar nucleus. Member of the compact NGC 68 group and first in a string with NGC 72 1.8' E and NGC 72A 3.0' E. 18" (11/14/09): very faint, extremely small, round, 15" diameter. Located 1.6' SSE of NGC 71 and a similar separation due west of NGC 72. 17.5" (8/27/87): extremely faint and small, faint stellar nucleus. In the core of the NGC 68 group with NGC 67 1.8' NW, NGC 71 1.6' NNE, NGC 72 1.8' E.