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NGC212

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 0:40:13.4
Declination: -56:9:9
Constellation: PHE
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, S, R, p of 2
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 212 30" (11/4/10 - Coonabarabran, 429x): This galaxy, along with NGC 215, are the two brightest members in the core of AGC 2806. Appeared moderately bright, fairly small, irregularly round, ~55"x45", broad concentration. A dozen members were easily picked up in the 23' field, though I didn't spend time looking for the faintest members. The nearest is 2MASX J00400662-5609299 just 1' WSW, while NGC 215 lies 6' SE. Located 25' NW of mag 5.7 Xi Phoenicis and just 2.4' N of mag 9.6 SAO 232142. 2MASX J00400423-5610499 is situated just 1' NW of the mag 9.6 star.