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NGC71
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:18:23.5
Declination: +30:3:47
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1855
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R
Sub-type: E-S0/P
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 71. See NGC 67 and NGC 68.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 71
24" (9/15/12): fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, round, sharply concentrated with a high surface brightness 0.4' core and a much fainter halo to 40" diameter. In a tight group of 10 galaxies including NGC 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, along with numerous stars mixed in! A mag 14 star is 40" ENE.
18" (11/14/09): fairly faint, small, round, 25" diameter. Compact appearance with a fairly high uniform surface brightness. A mag 13.5 star is close following [38" ENE]. Forms the SE vertex of a tight equilateral triangle of galaxies with NGC 68 and NGC 70.
17.5" (8/27/87): very faint, small, oval ~E-W, weak concentration. Member of the NGC 68 group and third in a close trio with NGC 68 1.2' NW and NGC 70 1.0' NNW.