NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

(This is a very very beta version)

NGC856

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:13:38.4
Declination: -0:43:0
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, lE, F * close f
Sub-type: Sa

Corwin's Notes

=====

NGC 856 = NGC 859.  See NGC 863.

Steve's Notes

=====

NGC 856

17.5" (12/4/93): faint, round, 0.8' diameter, no concentration except for faint stellar nucleus.  A mag 14 star is just off the east edge 1.0' from center.  NGC 863 lies 14' ESE.