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NGC496

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:23:11.6
Declination: +33:31:41
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS (C in Birr diagr.), 2nd of 3
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 496.  This is a companion to NGC 495 and NGC 499 (see both of these for
more), also found by WH.  He measured a single position for the three objects, 
and flagged the RA offset with double colons in the sweep.  Those colons did 
not make it into his published list.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 496

24" (10/4/13): fairly faint to moderately bright, moderately large, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, 0.9'x0.45', low fairly even surface brightness with a weak concentration. but no distinct core.  Located in the NGC 499 subgroup of the NGC 507 Group with NGC 498 2.4' S, NGC 499 4.2' S, NGC 495 4.8' SW and NGC 501 6.3' SSE.

13.1" (8/8/86): faint, low even surface brightness.  Second and largest of three with NGC 495 4.8' SW and NGC 499 4.2' S.