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NGC2984
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 9:43:40.3
Declination: +11:3:41
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R, bM (? PD 15')
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2984 = IC 556, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2984
17.5" (4/1/00): faint, small, round, 25" diameter, weak concentration. The halo, which fades at the edges, increases to ~0.6' with averted vision. A mag 14.5 star is close SSW (33" from center) and a slightly brighter star lies 0.9' NE.
NGC 2984 forms a pair with IC 557 7' SE. The companion appeared faint, very small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, 30"x15", weak concentration, very faint stellar nucleus at moments. The elongation was not always evident, so often I was just viewing the slightly brighter core.