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NGC2560

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 8:19:51.9
Declination: +20:59:5
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: F, pL
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2560 18" (2/26/11): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 or 3:1 E-W, 0.8'x0.3', sharply concentrated with a small bright core and fainter extensions. Located 1.5' E of a mag 10.4 star and 11' SW of NGC 2563, the brightest galaxy in the core of the Cancer I cluster. 17.5" (2/8/91): faint, small, very elongated 3:1 E-W, small bright core. Located 4.5' NE of mag 7.9 SAO 116633. A mag 10.5 star is 1.5' W. Located near the core of the Cancer I galaxy cluster with NGC 2556 12' WSW.