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NGC861
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:15:51.1
Declination: +35:54:50
Constellation: TRI
Visual Magnitude: 13.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, D * att sp
Sub-type: Sb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 861
13.1" (11/14/87): faint, very small, edge-on SW-NE. A mag 13 star is attached at the SW end 0.5' from center.