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NGC851
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:11:12.2
Declination: +3:46:47
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift E.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, pS, R, v diffic
Sub-type: S0-a
Steve's Notes
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NGC 851
24" (1/25/14): at 375x appeared fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:3 or 2:1 NW-SE, ~30"x15", contains a small brighter core. A mag 14.7 star is at the NE edge [23" from center]. Located 20' E of mag 6.8 HD 13285.
NGC 851 forms a pair with IC 211 4.5' NNW. This companion was faint, moderately large, slightly elongated SW-NE, low surface brightness and difficult to estimate diameter, increases in size with averted but at least 1.0'x0.8', slightly brighter core.
17.5" (12/23/92): faint, very small, round, weak concentration. A mag 14.5 star is at the NE edge just 22" from center. Located 20' E of mag 6.9 SAO 110378 20' W and 21' NNW of mag 6.7 SAO 110395.