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NGC2838

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:20:43.0
Declination: +39:18:59
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R
Sub-type: E?

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2838

17.5" (3/12/94): fairly faint, very small, round, 30" diameter, even concentration down to small bright core and occasional stellar nucleus.  Forms the southern vertex of an acute triangle with two mag 14 stars 50" N and 63" NNE.  Also located almost at midpoint of a mag 10.5 star 3.2' NE and a mag 11.5 star 2.8' SW.  UGC 4950 is at the edge of the 220x field 11' SW.