NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

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NGC746

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:57:51.0
Declination: +44:55:6
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, lE, sev st nr
Sub-type: Im

Steve's Notes

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NGC 746

17.5" (9/26/92): faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 E-W, even surface brightness.  A mag 13.5 star is at the west tip.  Several other faint stars are near and some nice star chains (both faint and fairly bright) lead off from the west side.