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NGC842
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:9:50.7
Declination: -7:45:45
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, R, psbM, 3rd of 3
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 842
17.5" (12/23/92): fairly faint, small, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE in direction of a mag 13 star 1.5' SE, very small bright core, stellar nucleus. Third of three with NGC 830 12' W and NGC 829 16' W.