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NGC223

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:42:15.9
Declination: +0:50:46
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Bond
Year of discovery: 1853
Discovery aperture: 15.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, R
Sub-type: S0-a/P

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 223 = IC 44, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 223

17.5" (10/8/88): faint, small, elongated SW-NE, small bright core.  Forms a pair with NGC 219 3.7' NNW.  Located close to the midpoint of a mag 11 star 2.8' SE and a mag 12 star 3.0' NW that is just south of NGC 219.