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NGC2742

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:7:33.2
Declination: +60:28:46
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 11.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: cB, cL, E 90°, er
Sub-type: Sc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2742.  A long time ago, I suggested that this "... is probably also NGC 
2816, which see."  But it's not.  I was struck by the similarity of 
declinations and descriptions, so -- without looking carefully at JH's 
observations -- lept to an incorrect conclusion.  Wolfgang found the correct
answer:  NGC 2816 is actually JH's mis-reduced observation of NGC 2820.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2742

13.1" (12/22/84): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated ~E-W, even moderate surface brightness.  Located 4.6' SE of mag 7.7 SAO 14765.  A thin isosceles triangle of stars including a mag 13 pair at 24" separation lies 3' SE.  NGC 2768 lies 40' SE.