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NGC644
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:38:52.8
Declination: -42:35:8
Constellation: PHE
Visual Magnitude: 14.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: F, S, vlE, glbM, f of 2
Sub-type: SBc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 644
24" (10/3/13): difficult due to low elevation (10¡) and fairly poor seeing this far south. At 200x appeared very faint, slightly elongated NNW-SSE, ~24"x18", required averted. Forms a pair with brighter NGC 641 4.3' NW. A mag 10 star lies 6.8' NW.