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NGC808

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:3:56.5
Declination: -23:18:44
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, vlE
Sub-type: SBbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 808

17.5" (10/8/94): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, very weakly concentrated along the major axis.  A string of three mag 14 stars extending NW are collinear with the galaxy and equally spaced at 1.0' separation.