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NGC294

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 0:53:5.7
Declination: -73:22:50
Constellation: TUC
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0

Observational


Summary description: vF, pL, R, vglbM, r
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 294. The CGH, GC, and NGC RA's are -1 minute of time in error. Curiously, JH notes the correct RA in his description in Sweep 441: "eF. (This obs. gives 47 [instead of 46] for the [1830] minute of R.A. The earlier minute is preferred.) In a sweep below the Pole." Also see NGC 222 where the other uncertain positions from Sweep 441 have a bearing on the identification of that object.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 294 30" (11/6/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): fairly bright, fairly small, round, 45"-50" diameter, contains a bright core. The halo has a smooth moderately high surface brightness but there were no resolved stars. Four mag 12-13 stars forming a parallelogram are centered 4.5' NW, but there are no bright stars in the immediately field. Bruck 67, a slightly smaller irregular glow with a low surface brightness, lies 2.2' SW. NGC 267 lies 23' WNW.