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NGC380

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:7:17.6
Declination: +32:28:58
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 12.5

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: pF, S, R, sbM
Sub-type: E2

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 380 18" (11/18/06): moderately bright, fairly small, round, 40" diameter, sharply concentrated with a very small, very bright core. Forms a 2.2' pair with NGC 379 and 4.5' NNW of NGC 383 at the north end of the "Pisces Group". 17.5" (9/19/87): fairly faint, small, round, bright core, stellar nucleus. Forms a pair with NGC 379 2' S in the NGC 383 group. 13" (9/29/84): fairly faint, small, round, bright core.