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NGC748

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:56:21.8
Declination: -4:28:2
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pF, * 9 np
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 748

17.5" (12/23/92): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:3 NW-SE, 1.0'x0.6', small bright core, stellar nucleus.  Located 1.9' SE of a mag 10.5 star and the galaxy is elongated in the direction of the star.