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NGC2927

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:37:15.1
Declination: +23:35:25
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, pL, R, lbM
Sub-type: SBb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2927

17.5" (4/15/93): faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, 1.2'x0.8', even concentration in halo down to a very small brighter core, halo fades into background.  Located 14' WNW of mag 8.0 SAO 80939.