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NGC2916
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 9:34:57.5
Declination: +21:42:16
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 12.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, S, vlE
Sub-type: Sb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2916
17.5" (1/31/87): fairly bright, moderately large, bright core, elongated SSW-NNE. A mag 12.5 star is 1.7' SSW of center.