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NGC7246

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 22:17:42.6
Declination: -15:34:12
Constellation: AQR
Visual Magnitude: 14.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1793
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, vlE, vgbM, * 13 n
Sub-type: Sa

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 7246 = IC 5198, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 7246

17.5" (9/15/90): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, weak concentration, faint stellar nucleus.  A mag 12.5 star is involved at the north end 1.0' NNE of center.