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NGC7308

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 22:34:32.0
Declination: -12:56:1
Constellation: AQR
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational


Summary description: pB, vS, R
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 7308 = IC 1448. The poor position from the first Leander McCormick list led Javelle to overlook the NGC number. Herbert Howe, however, caught the mistake and correctly identified the galaxy. It is about 40 seconds of time east and 3 arcmin north of Leavenworth's position. A sketch would not have helped to identify this as Leavenworth correctly notes, "No star in field."

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 7308 24" (9/29/16): at 260x; fairly faint, fairly small, 25"-30" diameter, slightly elongated, reasonably high surface brightness. Gradually increases to a very small brighter nucleus. Resides in a barren star field. Forms a pair with MCG -02-57-018 4' ENE. The companion is faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 NW-SE, 25"x10", low even surface brightness. MCG -02-57-019 was also picked up 14' NE (again in star-poor field). It was logged as very faint, very small, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, 18"x12". A mag 13.5 star is 1.7' WSW. 17.5" (9/15/90): faint, small, round, bright core.