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NGC276
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:52:6.5
Declination: -22:40:49
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Muller
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, pS, E 265°, * 11 n 3'
Sub-type: SBb
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 276 = IC 1591. There is no doubt about which galaxy the IC number belongs
to -- Stewart has it well-placed and perfectly described from a Harvard plate.
N276, however, is one of the Leander McCormick nebulae first found by Muller,
and published with a very poor position. Muller's description, however, is as
detailed and as accurate as Stewart's. Herbert Howe found the galaxy 1 minute
13 seconds following Muller's position with the bright star north-northeast
just as Muller had it.
Unfortunately, Dreyer did not catch the connection to IC 1591 when he wrote
the IC2 note, so the object now has two numbers.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 276
17.5" (10/21/95): extremely faint, very small, 20" diameter. This is a threshold object and can just glimpse at moments. No details visible including shape but detection repeated several times. View hampered by mag 7.6 SAO 166640 4.0' NNE.