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NGC879
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:16:51.3
Declination: -8:57:49
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, pS, iR, bM
Sub-type: Irr
Steve's Notes
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NGC 879
18" (1/15/07): extremely faint, fairly small, round, 0.4' diameter. Very low surface brightness and only glimpsed at 220x. Once identified I could repeatedly detect this dim galaxy with concentrated averted vision but it was a difficult object.
18" (11/6/04): extremely faint, very small, round, 20" diameter. Required averted and concentration in fairly poor seeing and just barely visible as a very low surface brightness spot.