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NGC489
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:21:53.8
Declination: +9:12:23
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: pB, S, E
Sub-type: S?
Steve's Notes
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NGC 489
18" (12/3/05): moderately bright, fairly small, edge-on streak NW-SE, 0.9'x0.2', well concentrated with a very small bright core. Contains a faint quasi-stellar nucleus with direct vision. Furthest west of a large group of galaxies in the NGC 524 group.
17.5" (10/17/87): moderately bright, fairly small, edge-on WNW-ESE, bright core. Member of the NGC 524 group with NGC 502 18' SE.