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NGC2681

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:53:32.5
Declination: +51:18:47
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 10.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vB, vL, vg, vsmbM * 10
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2681

17.5" (4/6/91): bright, fairly small, slightly elongated E-W, about 2' diameter.  Contains a small unusually bright core and stellar nucleus.  A pair of mag 12 stars are 2.1' W with separation 30" oriented NW-SE.  NGC 2693 lies 32' E.