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NGC2801
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 9:16:44.2
Declination: +19:56:7
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 14.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, pL
Sub-type: Sc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2801
18" (3/4/08): very faint, fairly small, round, 25" diameter, very low surface brightness glow with little or no concentration. Located 4' SW of a mag 9.9 star in the NGC 2804/2809 group
18" (2/9/08): extremely faint, small, round, 25" diameter, low surface brightness and required averted. Located 4.4' SW of a mag 10 star in the NGC 2804 group.
18" (3/11/07): extremely faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 WSW-ENE, 0.6'x0.45', low even surface brightness, requires averted to glimpse. Member of the NGC 2809 group and located 4.5' SW of *10 and 9.7' SW of NGC 2809.