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NGC502

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:22:55.6
Declination: +9:2:58
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: cB, S, R, bmN
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 502

18" (12/3/05): fairly faint, small, round, 25" diameter, sharply concentrated with a very small, very bright core ~10" diameter.

17.5" (10/17/87): fairly faint, small, small bright core, possible faint stellar nucleus.  Member of the NGC 524 group.