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NGC221

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 0:42:41.8
Declination: +40:51:57
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 8.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: Legentil
Year of discovery: 1749
Discovery aperture:

Observational


Summary description: ! vvB, L, R, psmbMN
Sub-type: E2

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 221 24" (11/24/14): extremely high surface brightness, large, elongated at least 4:3 NNW-SSE, ~5'x3.5'. The large halo is highly concentrated to a small very bright core. The core itself is sharply concentrated to a very small, very bright nucleus punctuated by an intense stellar nucleus. 13.1" (8/24/84): very bright, moderately large, elongated 4:3 NNW-SSE, about 4'x3', increases to small very bright core which is almost stellar. Located 24' S of the center of M31. 8": very bright, moderately large, round, 24' S of M31. 15x50mm (7/26/06): an intense "star-like" core is surrounded by a small halo in my IS binoculars.