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NGC2862

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:24:55.0
Declination: +26:46:31
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S, E, bM
Sub-type: SBbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2862

17.5" (4/13/91): fairly faint, moderately large, very elongated 5:1 WNW-ESE, 2.0'x0.4', brighter core, faint stellar nucleus.  Located 6' NNE of mag 8.4 SAO 80808 which has two 12th magnitude companions at 21" and 29".