NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
(This is a very very beta version)
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.