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NGC318

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:58:5.2
Declination: +30:25:34
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1850
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 318.  Even though Lord Rosse saw this on just one of the six nights on 
which he observed the group around NGC 315, it is nevertheless correctly 
placed in his diagram, and is correctly described by him.  The NGC position is
pretty good.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 318

17.5" (10/17/87): very faint, very small, round, weak concentration.  A mag 13.5 is off the NW edge 0.9' from the center.  Located 5.6' NE of NGC 315 and the third of three in a group.