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NGC260

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:48:34.9
Declination: +27:41:31
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stoney J.
Year of discovery: 1848
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, pS, lE
Sub-type: Sc/P

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 260.  Steve Gottlieb has pointed out that this object was first discovered 
by Johnstone Stoney on 22 December 1848, one of two objects accompanying NGC
252 (which see).  In his monograph, even d'A notes "One of Rosse's."  So the
missing NGC credit must be a simple oversight by Dreyer.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 260

17.5" (10/17/87): fairly faint, small, slightly elongated.  A faint mag 14.5-15.0 star is close NE.  This galaxy is the third of three with NGC 252 8.4' SW and NGC 258.