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NGC716

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:52:59.5
Declination: +12:42:30
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, R, B * f
Sub-type: SBa

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 716 = IC 1743.  Swift's RA for the NGC object is good, but his declination
is almost exactly 40 arcmin too far south.  His description -- including the 
bright star near east -- is appropriate, so the identity (first suggested
by Dreyer in the IC2 notes) is almost certain.  

There is no question of the identity of IC 1743.  It was found by Bigourdan,
and his four micrometric offsets point exactly at the galaxy.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 716

17.5" (12/4/93): fairly faint, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, 1.5'x0.7', broad weak concentration but no nucleus.  Located 8' WNW of mag 7.5 SAO 92682.  Identified as IC 1743 in UGC, MCG and CGCG.