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NGC2290
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 6:50:56.9
Declination: +33:26:15
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1793
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, S, gbM (= α)
Sub-type: Sa
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2290 is the brightest of a group of galaxies. There are several asterisms
in the area, too (see e.g. NGC 2277, 2278, 2284, and 2285).
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2290
18" (3/4/08): brightest and furthest south in a compact group of 5 NGC's, along with NGC 2289. Appears moderately bright and large, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, ~45"x22", the halo is weakly concentrated with a sharply concentrated 10" core. NGC 2289 and NGC 2288 lie 2' N. The cluster is 0.6¡ SW of mag 3.6 Theta Gem.
18" (10/21/06): furthest south in a curving chain of 5 galaxies including NGC 2288, NGC 2289, NGC 2291 and NGC 2294. Appears fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated, 40"x30", increases to a very small bright core. The cluster is located 35' SW of 3.6-magnitude Theta Geminorum.
17.5" (12/19/87): third of five and brightest in the NGC 2289/NGC 2290 group. Fairly faint, fairly small, oval SW-NE, bright core. NGC 2289 lies 2.6' NNW and NGC 2288 1.8' NNW.
13" (12/22/84): faint, small, elongated SW-NE, similar to NGC 2289 2.6' NNW.