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NGC2854

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:24:2.9
Declination: +49:12:14
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, cS, vlE, pglbM
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2854.  See CGCG 238-051 in the "notngc" files.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2854

17.5" (3/12/94): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, weak broad concentration.  Located 2.1' SSE of a mag 10 star.  Forms a pair with NGC 2856 3.5' NE and NGC 2857 is also in the field 10.8' ENE.  Forms an unusual pair with NGC 2856 as the major axes of these similar galaxies are exactly perpendicular.