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NGC2884

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 9:26:24.5
Declination: -11:33:20
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: F, S, r?
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2884 13.1" (4/10/86): fairly faint, small, slightly elongated N-S, possible faint stellar nucleus. A mag 13.5 star is 1.3' W of center. NGC 2889 lies 13' ESE.