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NGC872
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:15:25.2
Declination: -17:46:55
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, pS, mE 0°, gvlbM, sev F st inv
Sub-type: Sc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 872 is one of the few Leander McCormick nebulae that is absolutely,
positively identified. Not only did Leavenworth observe it three times, he
made two sketches of the field. Even so, the nominal RA is 46 seconds of time
off the true RA, a good indication of the quality of the LM positions.
See NGC 412 for an LM nebula, found and sketched the same night as one of
N872's, not so fortunate in its observation.
By the way, I identified this galaxy as NGC "842" in previous releases of this
notes file. I did that consistently throughout the file, not just as an
isolated typo, clearly the result of a brain freeze. I'm grateful to Steve
Gottlieb, who caught this, for letting me know with polite good humor.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 872
17.5" (10/8/94): extremely faint but moderately large and almost requires averted vision, low surface brightness, elongated 3:2 N-S, 1.2'x0.8'. A mag 11 star is 3.1' NW of center.