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NGC2696

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:50:42.0
Declination: -5:0:34
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, stellar
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2696 may be MCG -01-23-004.  The description and declination are close to
those recorded by Stone, though the RA is about 4 minutes of time off.  
Stone's RA is further east -- this is in the same direction as many other of 
the poor positions from the first two lists of Leander McCormick nebula
discoveries.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2696

17.5" (2/1/03): faint, fairly small, round, 0.7' diameter, weak even concentration to center.  Located 6' SSW of mag 8.7 SAO 136330.  Due to a very poor position by Stone, this galaxy is not generally identified as NGC 2696 (4 tmin error in RA) is not plotted on U2000 (version 2) atlas.  Listed at mag 16pg in the MCG, but does not appear that faint.