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NGC392
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:8:23.3
Declination: +33:8:0
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, vS, R, mbM, bet 2 st
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 392
24" (10/5/13): brightest member of the KTG 3 triplet with NGC 394 1.0' NNE and NGC 397 2.2' SE. At 375x appeared fairly bright, fairly small, slightly elongated SW-NE, 30"x25", increases to a bright stellar nucleus. A mag 13 star lies 1.2' SW. Also recorded IC 1619 13' WSW and UGC 692 15' SW.
17.5" (12/23/89): fairly faint, round, bright core, sharp stellar nucleus. A mag 13 star is 1' SW. Brightest of three (KTG 3) with NGC 394 1' NE and NGC 397 2' SE.