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NGC7552

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 23:16:10.6
Declination: -42:35:5
Constellation: GRU
Visual Magnitude: 10.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0

Observational

Summary description: B, S, mE 90° ±, vsbM * 13
Sub-type: SBab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 7552 = IC 5294, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 7552

13.1" (11/5/83): fairly faint, small, elongated E-W, small bright nucleus.  A mag 10 star lies 4.4' W and a mag 11 star is off the south side.  The trio of galaxies NGC 7582, NGC 7590 and NGC 7599 are roughly 35' NE with the entire group forming the Grus Quartet.