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NGC228

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:42:54.5
Declination: +23:30:12
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1879
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, R, fainter of 2
Sub-type: SBab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 228

17.5" (10/20/90): faint, small, almost round, weak concentration.  In a tight quadruple group with NGC 229 2.5' E, CGCG 479-061 1.5' SW ("extremely faint, very small, elongated 2:1 E-W, very low even surface brightness") and CGCG 479-065 11' ESE ("very faint, very small, round, bright core").