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NGC7551
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 23:15:22.0
Declination: +15:56:27
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude: 16.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: Neb * 13 m
Sub-type: S
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 7551 is a faint galaxy with a somewhat brighter star superposed just to
the southwest. The pair of objects is about 2/3 of an arcmin north of Marth's
position.
Some lists have N7551 equal to N7540, but Marth found that the same night that
he picked up N7551. The two objects cannot, therefore, be identical.
Marth also described his object as a "neb. * 13m"; this suggests that the star
is an integral part of the NGC object. This is how I've treated it; if you
don't agree, however, I do give the separate positions for the galaxy and the
star.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 7551
17.5" (7/17/93): very faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, very small brighter core, stellar nucleus. Located 11.1' E of NGC 7540.