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NGC2426

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:43:18.4
Declination: +52:19:5
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, R, vgbM, r, * 8 p
Sub-type: E0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2426

17.5" (2/8/91): fairly faint, small, round, small bright core, stellar nucleus.  Located 2.7' NNW of a mag 10 star.  Forms a pair with NGC 2429 5' NE.  Misplotted on the U2000 due to a typo in declination (30' too far N) in the RNGC.