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NGC298

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:55:2.2
Declination: -7:20:1
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: pF
Sub-type: Sc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 298.  See NGC 297.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 298

18" (11/22/03): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 E-W, 1.0'x0.5', weak concentration.  Located 11' W of a mag 6 star that I kept outside the field.  NGC 297 is an extremely difficult companion just 1.3' SW.

17.5" (10/13/90): very faint, very small, elongated 3:2 E-W.  Forms a pair with NGC 293 11' NW.  Located 11' W of mag 5.9 SAO 129032 in field!