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NGC700
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:52:16.8
Declination: +36:2:12
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 14.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1850
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R, sp h 157
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 700 is CGCG 522-030, not the larger but fainter CGCG 522-027. LdR has
the object 8 arcmin southwest of the center of the NGC 705 group; CGCG 522-030
is 8.1 arcmin southwest, while -027 is 6.5 arcmin west-southwest. Since its
surface brightness is higher than -027's, it is the more likely to have been
seen.
This is indeed Steve Gottlieb's experience. He notes that while he could pick
out -027 in his 17.5-inch reflector, only the nucleus was visible as a nearly
stellar object, while -030 was clearly the more nebulous of the two.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 700
17.5" (12/19/87): very faint, small, round. Two mag 14 stars are collinear 1.5' WSW and 2.7' WSW. Located about 8' SW of the central core of AGC 262 in a group of four galaxies with UGC 1336 3.7' NW. This galaxy (CGCG 522-030) is not identified as NGC 700 in any of the major catalogues.
17.5" (9/19/87): extremely faint, small, round. A mag 14 star lies 1' W.