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NGC806
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:3:31.2
Declination: -9:55:58
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, S, R, v diffic, pB * n
Sub-type: Sc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 806
17.5" (10/8/94): fairly faint, very elongated 3:1 WSW-ENE, irregular surface brightness, probably brighter on the west end. A mag 11 star is 3.7' NNE of center.
17.5" (12/23/92): faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 SW-NE, even surface brightness, asymmetric appearance with a very faint stellar nucleus offset to the NE end or an extremely faint star may be superimposed near NE tip. A mag 11 star is 3.5' NE.
Distorted, patchy appearance on the SDSS that may be the result of the post-collision merger. HyperLeda catalogues the companion a PGC 3100716 and NED gives the primary designation SHOC 103.