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NGC2431

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:45:13.3
Declination: +53:4:32
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: SBa

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2431 is probably also NGC 2436, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2431

17.5" (3/20/93): faint, small, round, small bright core, faint stellar nucleus.  A mag 11.5 star is 1.7' SE and a fainter mag 13 star is 2.2' W.