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NGC2297

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:44:24.5
Declination: -63:43:3
Constellation: PIC
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, vglbM
Sub-type: SBbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2297

18" (4/5/16 - Coonabarabran, 236x): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S, 45"x30", contains a faint quasi-stellar nucleus.  A mag 9.7 star (SAO 249635) is 4.7' S.  NGC 2305 and 2307 pair lies 43' SE (over the border into Volans).