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NGC196
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:39:17.8
Declination: +0:54:47
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 12.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, pS, R, psmbM
Sub-type: SB0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 196
18" (11/23/05): moderately bright, small, fairly high surface brightness. Sharply concentrated with a bright, very small core surrounded by a much fainter oval halo 3:2 N-S, ~0.6'x0.4'. Second brightest in the HCG 7 quartet with NGC 192 3' SSW and much fainter NGC 197 1' SSE.
17.5" (10/8/88): fairly faint, very small, round, small bright core. Forms a very close pair with NGC 197 1' SSE in the HCG 7 group. NGC 192 lies 3' SSW and NGC 201 5' SE.