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NGC7480

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 23:5:13.5
Declination: +2:32:58
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 14.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, vlE, vgbM
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 7480

17.5" (11/18/95): faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, 1.0'x0.3.'  Contains a small, round bright core with very faint thin extensions.  Preceded by an isosceles triangle of mag 10.5 stars (with equal sides about 3.5' and base 5.5').  Forms a pair with NGC 7478 4.6' WNW.

13" (11/29/86): very faint, small, edge-on WNW-ESE.  Nearby NGC 7478 not seen.