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NGC2470
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:54:20.4
Declination: +4:27:36
Constellation: CMI
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, S, lE, bet 2 st
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2470
17.5" (12/19/87): moderately bright, fairly small, pretty edge-on NW-SE, bright core. A mag 13 star is 0.8' N of center.