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NGC996
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:38:39.6
Declination: +41:38:50
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 13.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1871
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: E0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 996. See IC 240.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 996
18" (12/18/06): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 0.9', gradually increases to a small, brighter core. This galaxy is the brightest, along with NGC 995 7.2' SSW, of a group of 8 galaxies (6 NGC's) generally arranged in a ring (part of the NGC 1023 group). Forms a close pair with NGC 999 2' NE and also forms the southern vertex of an isosceles triangle with two mag 10.5-11 stars 3' NE and 3' NW.
17.5" (11/1/86): faint, small, round, small bright core. Forms a pair with NGC 999 2' NE in the NGC 995-1005 group.