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NGC2778
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 9:12:24.5
Declination: +35:1:40
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 12.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pB, S, R, psmbM
Sub-type: E3
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2778
17.5" (3/28/92): fairly faint, small, irregularly round, very small bright core, stellar nucleus with direct vision. Forms a close pair with NGC 2779 1.7' NNE with NGC 2780 in the field 7.3' SSE. An evenly matched pair of mag 10 stars (at 38" in PA ~90¡) is located 5' NNE.