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NGC2911
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 9:33:46.5
Declination: +10:9:10
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 11.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, pL, R, gbM, p of 2
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2911. See NGC 2912.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2911
17.5" (2/20/88): moderately bright, fairly small, slightly elongated, bright core, faint stellar nucleus. Brightest in a group with NGC 2914 4.8' SE and UGC 5093 8.1' SSE. Forms a close pair with PGC 27167 1.3' ENE (misidentified as NGC 2912 in RNGC, PGC and Megastar). In Lowrey's 48", PGC 27167 appeared faint, small, round, low even surface brightness, 15"-18" diameter. A mag 16.1 star is 26" E.
13.1" (4/29/84): fairly bright, fairly small, round, distinctive small bright nucleus.
8" (4/24/82) : faint, small, diffuse.