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NGC2847

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:20:8.6
Declination: -16:31:2
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1855
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, inv in h 587, np
Sub-type: GxyP

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2847 is a faint star superposed on a star cloud in NGC 2848.  LdR has only
one observation of it on 15 March 1855, saying only "... F knot np [N2848] and
a triple * nf, B * a little more distant nf".  The four stars are just where
LdR describes them, as is his "F knot".

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2847

48" (2/20/12): at 375x, a mag 16.5 star is superimposed on the northwest side (0.6' from center) of spiral NGC 2848 and attached to this star is an extremely faint HII knot. The combination of the mag 16.5 star + knot was likely recorded by Lord Rosse's assistant R.J. Mitchell as a "faint knot north-preceding" and it received the designation NGC 2847.  The RNGC misclassified the number as nonexistent.