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NGC7650
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 23:25:20.9
Declination: -57:47:28
Constellation: TUC
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: pF, pS, R, glbM, np of 2
Sub-type: SBc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 7650. The northern arm of this late-type spiral is distorted. The galaxy
may be interacting with another, smaller galaxy (as it appears to be in the
DSS2IR image), or this may be a large, star-forming, superassociation (as it
appears in the DSS2R and DSSB images). In either case, I've given a separate
position for it.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 7650
30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 303x; fairly bright, fairly large, slightly elongated, 1.0'x0.9', appears brighter along a central bar oriented E-W. A spiral arm is just visible on the north side and containing a bright HII knot (or companion?) at its northern end. Brightest in a trio (KTS 73) with NGC 7652 6.2' SSE and NGC 7657 11.5' ESE. I also picked up PGC 384902 4.2' SSW. It appeared very faint (B = 16.7), very small, 10" with possible extensions SW-NE increasing the size to 20"x10", low surface brightness. This background galaxy has a light-travel time of ~960 million years.