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NGC2929

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:37:29.7
Declination: +23:9:40
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, lE, vlbM, 1st of 3
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2929

17.5" (4/15/93): first and largest of a close trio in a line.  Faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 NW-SE, 1.0'x0.3'.  A mag 13 star is 1.7' NW.  Located 10' NE of mag 7.1 SAO 80931 at the edge of the field.  NGC 2930 lies 2.8' NNE and similar brightness to NGC 2931 5' NNE.