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NGC946

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:30:38.4
Declination: +42:13:59
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: F, S, R, glbM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 946

17.5" (11/26/94): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, 1.0'x0.6', sharp concentration with a small, round bright core and stellar nucleus.  Forms the southern vertex of a quadrilateral with three mag 11 stars between 2.5' and 3' separation NNW, NNE and NE.  NGC 937 lies 15' W.  Located at the east edge of galaxy cluster AGC 347.