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NGC2389
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:29:4.8
Declination: +33:51:39
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude: 12.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, R, psbM
Sub-type: SBc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2389. See NGC 2386 and NGC 2390.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2389
18" (1/13/07): brightest galaxy in a group. At 280x appeared moderately bright, fairly small, oval 5:3 ~E-W, ~1.1'x0.7' though the outer halo fades into the background gradually so difficult to trace with averted vision. Broad, weak concentration with no well-defined core althought there is a small brighter nucleus with direct vision. Trio with NGC 2388 3.4' SW and NGC 2385 7.7' WSW. Also, an unusual edge-on UGC 3879 13' SE (similar redshift) appeared extremely faint, small (viewed only the core of this thin edge-on), 15"-20" diameter. A couple of mag 14-14.5 stars lies 1' to 1.5' NE.
13.1" (2/23/85): this galaxy is the brightest in the NGC 2389 group. Fairly faint, slightly elongated ~E-W, bright core. Third of three in a tight subgroup with NGC 2385 and NGC 2388.