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NGC2556
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 8:19:0.8
Declination: +20:56:15
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 14.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2556
18" (2/26/11): very faint, very small, round, very small brighter core, sharp stellar nucleus. A wide pair of mag 13.14 stars are within 2' SSW and a mag 10.5 star is 3.5' SE. Located 24' WSW of NGC 2563, the brightest galaxy in the core of the Cancer I cluster.
17.5" (1/1/92): very faint, very small, round. A pair of mag 13/14 stars are 1.3' S and 1.7' S. NGC 2560 lies 12' WNW and NGC 2553 21' W. Located near the center of the Cancer I galaxy cluster.