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NGC2212

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:18:35.7
Declination: -18:31:12
Constellation: CMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, R, in field with last
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2212

17.5" (1/20/90): extremely faint, very small, round, very low surface brightness.  A line of three equally spaced mag 14 stars begins 1.5' E and ends 1.3' N.  Forms a pair with NGC 2211 1.5' SW.