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NGC224
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:42:44.3
Declination: +41:16:8
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 3.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: As-Sufi
Year of discovery: 964
Discovery aperture:
Observational
Summary description: !!! eeB, eL, vmE (Andromeda)
Sub-type: Sb
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 224 = M 31, the Andromeda Galaxy. This may well be the most famous galaxy
in the northern sky. A vital stepping stone in the extragalactic distance
scale, it is the brightest galaxy in the Local Group -- our own Milky Way is
the second brightest.
Curiously, in spite of its proximity, M 31 contains only one other NGC object,
the star cloud NGC 206. There is another star cloud at the other end of the
galaxy that could have been included in the NGC, but wasn't. See that story
in the "notngc" files where I label the "missing" object the "Barnard And SC."
Steve's Notes
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NGC 224
17.5" (7/5/86): the remarkable "Andromeda galaxy" is very bright, extremely large, very elongated 4:1 SW-NE, about 2.5¡ length. Very large bright core containing a stellar nucleus using direct vision. There are two black parallel dust lanes along the NW side of the core. The galaxy extends beyond the star cloud NGC 206 located about 40' SW of the core.
18": a total of 38 globular clusters have been tracked down in M31 as well as 9 star clusters.