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NGC2874
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 9:25:47.8
Declination: +11:25:33
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, pL, mE
Sub-type: SBbc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2874. See NGC 2875.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2874
48" (2/21/12): at 375x, the largest member of this striking trio appeared very bright, large, very elongated 7:2 SW-NE, 1.8'x0.5', sharply concentrated with an intense core. The northeast extension is slightly brighter, particularly along the eastern side (knotty spiral arm = NGC 2875). NGC 2872 is 1.3' WNW and NGC 2873 is 1.7' NNE.
17.5" (2/20/88): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, halo gradually increases to a bright core. A mag 15 star is 1.3' S of center. In a close trio with NGC 2872 1.3' WNW and NGC 2873 1.8' N.