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NGC2598

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:30:2.5
Declination: +21:29:18
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S
Sub-type: SBa

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2598.  See NGC 2597.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2598

17.5" (1/1/92): faint, small, round, broad concentration.  Located just west of the vertex of a "V" asterism consisting of five mag 11-12 stars; the asterism appears to point towards this galaxy with the vertex being a mag 12 star 1.7' E.  Outlying member of Cancer I galaxy cluster.