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NGC2268

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:14:17.5
Declination: +84:22:56
Constellation: CAM
Visual Magnitude: 11.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Borrelly
Year of discovery: 1871
Discovery aperture: 7.2

Observational

Summary description: pF, pL, lE
Sub-type: SBbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2268

17.5" (8/27/87): fairly bright, fairly large, elongated SW-NE, bright core, faint stellar nucleus.  A mag 14 star is at the SW edge 1.1' from center.

17.5" (2/22/87): moderately bright, moderately large, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, faint halo gradually increases to a large brighter core, small bright nucleus, faint stellar nucleus.