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NGC814

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 2:10:37.6
Declination: -15:46:24
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational


Summary description: eF, S, R, gbM
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 814 and 815. These two objects, found by Ormond Stone at Leander McCormick in 1886, have been misidentified or given up as lost by nearly everyone who has tried to find them. However, Stone's sketch, made a few days after their discovery, points to the correct objects a full eight minutes of time east of the recorded (and published) positions. The star field is unmistakeable, and the objects match Stone's descriptions.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 814 17.5" (10/25/97): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, 1.0'x0.5', broad concentration. Located close NE of a mag 12 star [0.9' from center]. At moments appears to have a faint stellar nucleus. Forms a close pair with extremely difficult NGC 815 2.4' S. Due to a poor position by Stone, these objects are misidentified in RNGC.