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NGC7208

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 22:8:24.7
Declination: -29:3:5
Constellation: PSA
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS, R, almost planetary
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 7208. JH's RA is one minute of time too small. This was first reported by Herbert Howe in MNRAS 58, 356, 1898, his first paper reporting observations of nebulae with the 20-inch Clark refractor at Chamberlin Observatory near Denver. The galaxy itself is a peculiar I0 (but aren't they all?!) with a dust lane not quite aligned along the major axis. The position I've adopted is for the apparent nucleus to the west of the dust lane, but other positions in the table from GSC and UB10 are more or less centered on the outer isophotes.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 7208 17.5" (8/10/91): fairly faint, fairly small, round, broad concentration but no nucleus. On a line between a mag 11.5 star 1.8' WSW and a mag 11 star 3.3' ENE.