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NGC2550

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:24:33.7
Declination: +74:0:43
Constellation: CAM
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eeF, pS, cE
Sub-type: Sb/P

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2550

17.5" (12/23/92): fairly faint, moderately large, very elongated 3:1 ~E-W, even surface brightness.  A mag 14.5 star is at the west tip 0.8' from center.  A nice unequal double star SAO 6528 = 8.6/13 lies 2.5' E.  Nearby is NGC 2544 12' W and NGC 2550A = UGC 4397 23' SE.