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NGC982
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Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:35:24.8
Declination: +40:52:10
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, S, nf of 2
Sub-type: Sa
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 982. See NGC 980.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 982
17.5" (11/27/92): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 NW-SE, small bright core, stellar nucleus. Located 2' NE of a mag 10 star. Brighter of a striking pair with NGC 980 3.5' NNW. Identifications of NGC 980 and NGC 982 are reversed in the RNGC, UGC, CGCG.