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NGC718

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:53:13.0
Declination: +4:11:44
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: pB, S, iR, psmbM
Sub-type: SBa

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 718 is probably not also NGC 728, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 718 17.5" (11/6/93): moderately bright, fairly small, round, increases to very small prominent core, stellar nucleus, very faint larger halo 1.5' diameter. 8" (10/13/81): faint, very small, round, bright core.