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NGC820

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 2:8:24.9
Declination: +14:20:59
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1828
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: F, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 820 17.5" (12/18/89): fairly faint, fairly small, oval SW-NE, bright core. A mag 15 star is just off the east edge 0.7' from the center. Located almost at the midpoint of two mag 14 stars 1.6' SW and 1.4' NNE.