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NGC2962

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 9:40:54.0
Declination: +5:9:57
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information


Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational


Summary description: F, vS, vlE, psbM
Sub-type: SB0

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2962 17.5" (1/31/87): fairly faint, small, oval N-S, small bright core. Collinear with a mag 11.5/14 double star at 24" separation just 1.5' NNE. A line of three mag 11/12 stars of 1.0' length lies 5' SSE.