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NGC397

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:8:31.0
Declination: +33:6:35
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 14.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Ball
Year of discovery: 1866
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, R, vF * p
Sub-type: E?

Steve's Notes

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NGC 397

24" (10/5/13): faintest in the KTG 3 triplet with brighter NGC 392 2.2' NW and NGC 394 2.5' NNW.  At 375x appeared fairly faint, small, 15"x12", slightly elongated SW-NE, very weak concentration.

17.5" (12/23/89): extremely faint and small, slightly elongated, very low even surface brightness.  Faintest of three with NGC 392 2' NW.