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NGC2722

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:58:46.1
Declination: -3:42:35
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, stellar
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2722 is probably also NGC 2733, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2722

17.5" (3/12/94): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, 1.2'x0.8', brighter along major axis, fairly weak even concentration down to a brighter core, no well-defined nucleus.  A mag 12 star lies 2.0' WNW.  The NGC position is 10' too far east.