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NGC74
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:18:49.5
Declination: +30:3:41
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 14.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1855
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, S, E, last of 6
Sub-type: Sb
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 74. See NGC 67.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 74
24" (9/15/12): faint or fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 NW-SE, 0.6'x0.25', broad weak concentration. On the east side of the NGC 67-72 group, 5.6' due east of NGC 71.
18" (11/14/09): extremely faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 NW-SE, 0.6'x0.2'. Appears as a phantom streak with averted vision. Located ~6' E of the NGC 68/70/71 triple and furthest east member of the group.
17.5" (8/27/87): very faint, small, elongated NW-SE, diffuse, even surface brightness. Located 6' E of NGC 71 at the east edge of the NGC 68/NGC 70 group.