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NGC2868

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:23:27.2
Declination: -10:25:44
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 14.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Muller
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, R, 10s p next (?RA 9h 22m)
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2868 is a companion to NGC 2863 = NGC 2869, which see for the story.  This
is also Bigourdan 039; see CGCG 097-087 in the "notngc" files for more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2868

17.5" (2/1/03): extremely faint, very small, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, 0.4'x0.25, low even surface brightness.  Located just 2.3' W of much brighter NGC 2863!