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NGC2458
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Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:55:51.6
Declination: +56:42:39
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 14.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1851
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, * 12 close
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2458. See NGC 2469.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2458
24" (1/25/14): faint, very small, round, 10" diameter, quasi-stellar nucleus. A mag 13.5 star lies 35" SW. Located 4.8' ENE of a mag 10.5 star and second in a string of 6 faint galaxies (several of which have identification problems). This galaxy is identified as NGC 2461 in many sources. PGC 22191 lies 2.8' NW.
17.5" (1/19/91): not found.