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NGC2652

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 9:42:33.2
Declination: -3:41:57
Constellation: SEX
Visual Magnitude: 10.9

Historic Information


Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational


Summary description: F, pS, E 50°, gbM stell N, * 9 sp 50"
Sub-type: E4

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 2652 = NGC 2974. Searching for NGC 2652 during work on ESGC, I could not find it. When I came back to the number two decades later, I tried larger errors. The galaxy finally showed up one hour later on the sky, and is NGC 2974 which was seen by both WH and JH. Stone's position is otherwise about 3/4 of a minute of time further east, a common error for him and his colleagues at Leander McCormick. His description is spot-on, including the 9th magnitude star at 240 degrees position angle, 0.8 arcmin distant.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2652 See observing notes for NGC 2974.