NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
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NGC2616
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 8:35:34.0
Declination: -1:51:3
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, R, * nr nf
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2616
24" (2/5/13): at 375x appeared fairly faint, small, round, 25" diameter, fairly high surface brightness. A larger halo of extremely low surface brightness was not noticed. A mag 15 star is superimposed just north of center and a mag 13.5 star is off the NE side, 50" from center.
Brightest of 8 in a group (WBL 188) with IC 515 3.1' SSW, IC 516 4.4' ESE and CGCG 004-072 6.5' SE. The four galaxies, with NGC 2616 at the NE vertex, form a near parallelogram. In addition, CGCG 004-071 lies 6' NNE, IC 514 12' SSW, CGCG 004-065 14.5' SSW and IC 517 17' SE.
17.5" (4/6/91): faint, very small, round. A mag 13.5 star is 0.8' NE of center.