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NGC955

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:30:33.1
Declination: -1:6:30
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 12.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, E, psbM
Sub-type: Sab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 955

17.5" (12/4/93): moderately bright, edge-on 4:1 SSW-NNE, 1.5'x0.4', fairly bright elongated core.  A mag 12 star is 2.5' SE.  Located 25' W of 75 Ceti (V = 5.4).

8" (11/28/81): very faint, small, elongated SW-NE.