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NGC2462

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:56:31.9
Declination: +56:41:12
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1851
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, vlbM
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2462.  See NGC 2469.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2462

24" (1/25/14): fairly faint, small, slightly elongated NNW-SSE, 20"x15", weak concentration to the center.  NGC 2463 lies 5.5' ESE.  Located 11' N of mag 6.7 HD 64347.  Third in a 25' E-W string of 6 galaxies (nearly equally spaced).

17.5" (1/19/91): faint, very small, round, very weak concentration.  Located 10' N of mag 6.5 SAO 64347.  First of four on a line with NGC 2463 5.6' E.