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NGC749

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:55:40.9
Declination: -29:55:20
Constellation: FOR
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, E, bM
Sub-type: SB0-a

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 749 is not IC 1740, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 749

17.5" (10/29/94): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 2:1 WNW-ESE, 1.5'x0.8'.  Fairly sharp concentration with a prominent core and faint extensions.  The core brightens to a very small but non-stellar nucleus.  A mag 12 star lies 3.9' W of center.