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NGC870
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:17:9.1
Declination: +14:31:22
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 15.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1854
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, stellar, 2 vF st close sp, s of h 208
Sub-type: C
Steve's Notes
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NGC 870
18" (1/15/07): extremely faint and small, round, 12" diameter. Only glimpsed with averted as an extremely faint spot but the detection was repeated several times with concentration and patience. Located 1.5' SSW of NGC 871 and just NE of a mag 13 star off the SW side of NGC 871. At a redshift-based distance of ~755 million light years (z = .057), this is one of the most distant galaxies in the NGC.
18" (11/22/03): not found
17.5" (12/18/89): not found