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NGC652

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:40:43.2
Declination: +7:59:0
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eeF, pS, R, v diffic
Sub-type: S?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 652 has a +13 second error in its RA.  It shares this with three other
nebulae which Swift discovered the same night.  See those (NGC 1450, N1509 =
IC 2026, and N1594 = I2075) for more.  Also see N1677 = N1659 for other notes
about that night of 22 October 1886.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 652

17.5" (12/18/89): very faint, very small, slightly elongated, very weak concentration.