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NGC7401

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 22:52:58.5
Declination: +1:8:33
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 14.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1856
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS
Sub-type: Sa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 7401

17.5" (8/27/87): extremely faint, very small, round, weak concentration.  Forms a close pair with NGC 7402 1.5' E.  Located in a group 3.0' ENE of NGC 7397 and 9.5' ENE of brightest member NGC 7396.  Identification reversed with NGC 7402 in the RNGC and not identified as NGC 7401 in the CGCG.