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NGC2258

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:47:46.5
Declination: +74:28:53
Constellation: CAM
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, 2 st 10·11 f
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2258

17.5" (1/19/91): moderately bright, small, round, small bright core, stellar nucleus.  A mag 11 star is just 0.8' NE of center and a mag 12 star is 1.2' SSE.  NGC 2256 lies 15' SSW and IC 451 is 20' E.