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NGC2468

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:58:2.2
Declination: +56:21:33
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, R, bM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2468

17.5" (1/19/91): fairly faint, very small, oval 2:1 SW-NE.  A mag 12 star is off the NW edge 1.2' from center.  Located 15' SE of mag 6.5 SAO 26579.  The NGC 2461-2472 group lies 20' N.