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NGC7457

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 23:0:59.8
Declination: +30:8:41
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude: 11.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cB, cL, lE, gmbM, r, 2 S st n
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 7457

17.5" (8/13/88): bright, fairly large, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, very bright core, very small bright nucleus.  Forms a pair with UGC 12311 8' NE.  Several bright stars in field including two mag 10 stars 3.5' NE and 2.8' E.  A mag 11 star is 5.0' ENE and mag 9 SAO 90959 9.5' ENE.