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NGC2444
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:46:53.0
Declination: +39:1:57
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1877
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, mbM
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2444
48" (4/5/13): NGC 2444 is the northwest component of a remarkable interacting system with the multi-component ring galaxy NGC 2445. At 488x it appeared bright, small, slightly elongated, 30" diameter, sharply concentrated with a very high surface brightness nucleus ~12"-15" diameter. NGC 2445, directly southeast has 6 components, the nearest being VV 117b, just 0.6' SSE.
13.1" (1/18/85): forms an interacting double ring system with NGC 2445. Both appear as two nearly stellar knots oriented NNW (NGC 2444) and SSE (NGC 2445) with a separation of 1.0', surrounded by faint halo which may merge.