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NGC736

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:56:41.0
Declination: +33:2:40
Constellation: TRI
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pB, R, bM
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 736 is the brightest of a group of five.  See NGC 733 and NGC 737 for
more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 736

17.5" (11/1/86): moderately bright, fairly small, round, small bright core, small halo.  A mag 15 star is 30" N (this is NGC 737).  In a close quadruple group with NGC 738 1.3' NE, NGC 740 3' SE and (R)NGC 733 3.6' WNW.

13.1" (10/20/84): moderately bright, small, a faint star is at the north edge.  A nearly stellar galaxy (NGC 738:) is close NE.