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NGC694
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:50:58.4
Declination: +21:59:49
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 13.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1861
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: F, S, R, bet 2 st 15
Sub-type: S0/P
Steve's Notes
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NGC 694
18" (11/22/03): moderately bright, fairly small, 0.7'x0.5'. Fairly high surface brightness, which increases to an occasional faint stellar nucleus. A mag 10.5 star is 2.3' SE. IC 167, which lies 5.5' SSE, is very faint, elongated 4:3, 0.8'x0.6', low surface brightness.
13" (9/29/84): faint, small, round, diffuse, even surface brightness. Member of the NGC 697 group (also called the NGC 691 group) with IC 167 5.5' SSE.