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NGC2104

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:47:4.2
Declination: -51:33:11
Constellation: PIC
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, pS, R, glbM
Sub-type: SBm

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2104

13.1" (2/20/04 - Costa Rica): at 166x appears very faint, moderately large, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE, low even surface brightness, 1.3'x0.8'.  A mag 12 star lies 5' SW.  Easy to locate 29' S of mag 3.9 Beta Pictoris.  NGC 2101 lies 22' SSW.