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NGC2717

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:57:1.1
Declination: -24:40:26
Constellation: PYX
Visual Magnitude: 12.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pF, S, R, vgpmbM
Sub-type: E/SB0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2717

17.5" (3/25/95): moderately bright, fairly small, 50" diameter, oval SSW-NNE, high surface brightness.  Contains a prominent 30" bright core and a stellar nucleus.  Difficult to judge extent of outer halo as gradually fades into background.  A mag 11 star lies 2.1' ENE of center.  Located 13' NW of mag 7.1 SAO 176747.