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NGC2806

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 9:16:56.7
Declination: +20:4:16
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 14.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: vF, stellar, p h 578
Sub-type: *

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 2806 is a star, and is certainly not the galaxy listed in RNGC. It is in just the place noted by Dreyer in Lord Rosse's observations. Here is Dreyer's description of the object: "A vF * or cS, eF neb p [N2809] (sky bad), forming an equilateral triangle with [2807] and [2809] (susp as neb by d'A, = [N2806])." Dreyer's descriptions and offsets for other objects in the field are exact, so there is no mistaking the true identity of N2806.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2806 18" (3/4/08): this number refers to a single mag 14.5 star 2.4' W of NGC 2809. 18" (2/9/08): this mag 14.5 star was mistakenly thought to be possibly nebulous by Dreyer. At 225x it appeared clearly as a faint star. Located 2.4' W of NGC 2809 and a similar distance NNW of NGC 2807. NGC 2806 is incorrectly identified as MCG +03-24-030 in RNGC, MCG and PGC.