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NGC286
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:53:30.3
Declination: -13:6:44
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, S, R, 4th of 4
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 286
24" (10/5/13): fairly faint, fairly small, oval 4:3 N-S, 40"x30", weak concentration, small brighter nucleus. By a slight margin, the brightest in a compact quartet of similar NGC galaxies with NGC 283/284/285 in an east-west string just 3' S. Also PGC 173072, a much fainter galaxy, lies 3.7' SW.
17.5" (10/28/89): very faint, very small, slightly elongated N-S. Fourth of four with NGC 285 3.5' S and NGC 284 4' SSW.