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NGC2824

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:19:2.3
Declination: +26:16:13
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: Cl, S, st F, vC
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2824

17.5" (3/28/92): faint, small, round, very small bright core.  Overpowered by mag 6.5 SAO 80757 just 3' ESE!  The galaxy is located at the west vertex of a rhombus formed by three stars including the mag 6.5 star, a mag 11 star 2.7' S and a mag 12 star 2.9' NE with sides about 3' length.  Described by d'Arrest as a cluster in the NGC.