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NGC2629

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 8:47:15.2
Declination: +72:59:8
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1802
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: vF, S, stellar
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 2629. See NGC 2630.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2629 17.5" (2/1/92): fairly faint, small, slightly elongated 4:3 WNW-ESE, small bright core, faint stellar nucleus, fairly high surface brightness. A mag 12 star is 40" SSE. Brightest of three with NGC 2641 6.3' SSE and (R)NGC 2630 = UGC 4547 7' WNW. NGC 2614 lies 20' W.