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NGC704

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:52:37.7
Declination: +36:7:37
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R, 2nd of 4
Sub-type: S?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 704.  This is a double galaxy, a fact actually noted by LdR, but which
Dreyer did not transfer into the NGC.  Steve Gottlieb discovered this recently
(March 2014), and suggests that this is another case where positions for both
objects, using the notations "NGC 704A" and "NGC 704B", would be appropriate.
I'll ponder this ...

Steve's Notes

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NGC 704

17.5" (9/19/87): fairly faint, small, oval ~N-S, weak concentration.  Located in the dense core of AGC 262 with NGC 705 1.3' NE, NGC 703 2.7'N and NGC 708 2.7' NE.  This double galaxy (companion NGC 704A = PGC 3626786 at the south edge) was unresolved, but probably was merged in the N-S direction.

13" (9/22/84): fairly faint, very small.  Second brightest of four in the core of AGC 262.

13.1" (12/11/82): very faint.  On a line with NGC 705 and NGC 708.