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NGC462

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:18:10.9
Declination: +4:13:35
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 14.7

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, stellar
Sub-type: E0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 462

17.5" (12/23/92): extremely faint and small, round, visible continuously with averted vision.  A mag 13.5 star is 2.5' S.  The galaxy is almost collinear with mag 9.2 SAO 109796 5' SE and mag 9.1 SAO 109798 10.5' SE.  IC 89 lies 30' WNW.