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NGC796
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:56:43.8
Declination: -74:13:12
Constellation: HYI
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R, * np 25"
Sub-type: OCL
Steve's Notes
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NGC 796
30" (11/6/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): fairly bright but fairly small. The main knot is round, ~30" in diameter with a single star that stands out at the SE edge. Barely off the NW edge is a 10" knot that is possibly detached. This knot increases the total size to nearly 45"x30", elongated NW-SE. Located 8.5' SW of mag 8.2 HD 12440. This object is apparently an outlying cluster of the SMC.