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NGC2493

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:0:23.8
Declination: +39:49:51
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 12.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cB, S, R, sbM
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2493.  LdR's observations may refer to another galaxy.  See NGC 2495 for
details.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2493

17.5" (2/24/90): moderately bright, fairly small, round, halo gradually increases to a small bright core.  Located 9' SW of mag 7.6 SAO 42123.  Forms a close pair with a dim galaxy NGC 2495 1.8' ENE.  This galaxy forms the southern vertex of an isosceles triangle with a mag 9.5 star 5' WNW and a mag 10 star 4.5' NNW.