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NGC7020

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 21:11:19.9
Declination: -64:1:31
Constellation: PAV
Visual Magnitude: 11.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, cS, lE, pgbM
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 7020 = NGC 7021, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 7020

30" (10/10/15 - OzSky): at 394x; bright, fairly large, elongated 3:1 NNW-SSE, ~2.5'x1.2', sharply concentrated with a very bright elongated core that increases to the center and a very low surface brightness halo.  Located 8' E of mag 6.9 HD 201020.  Brightest in a small group with IC 5092 41' SE and IC 5096 49' NE.