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NGC2639

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:43:37.8
Declination: +50:12:22
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cB, S, E 130°, psmbM
Sub-type: Sa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2639

17.5" (3/28/92): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.6'x0.9', halo gradually increases to a small brighter core.  A mag 13 star is 2.5' SE.  There are several fairly bright stars in the field including two mag 10.5 stars 4.6' E and 5.2' NE.