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NGC492

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:22:13.5
Declination: +5:25:1
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 15.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1850
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, R
Sub-type: SB?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 492 has a somewhat fainter companion about an arcmin southwest.  LdR does
not mention two objects here, and his micrometric offset of N492 from N490 is 
exactly on the brighter object, so there is no possible confusion of 
identities here.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 492

17.5" (10/4/97): extremely faint, small, round, 25" diameter, low surface brightness, no concentration.  On line with a mag 12 star 3.7' NW and a faint pair of mag 14-14.5 stars [at 22" separation] 2' NW.  Forms a close pair with MCG +01-04-037 1' SW (not seen). NGC 492 is located 12' NE of NGC 488 member with several other faint galaxies (NGC 486 8.5' SW, NGC 490 4' SW, NGC 500 7' ESE) in the field.