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NGC2856

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:24:16.2
Declination: +49:14:57
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: cF, cS, lE, bM
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2856.  See CGCG 238-051 in the "notngc" files.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2856

17.5" (3/12/94): forms an interesting similar pair of elongated systems with NGC 2854 3.5' SW.  Fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.2'x0.6', broadly concentrated.  Located 3.5' E of a mag 10 star.  NGC 2857 lies 7.3' NNE.