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NGC2450
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:47:32.2
Declination: +27:1:10
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude: 14.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1878
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, S * inv
Sub-type: Sbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2450
24" (2/14/15): at 300x and 375x; faint to fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 NNW-SSE, 0.6'x0.2'. Brighter along a thin strip of the major axis. A mag 14.6 star is close off the northwest edge. Last of a 12' quartet (WBL 152) with IC 2205, NGC 2449 and IC 476.
17.5" (2/20/88): very faint, very small, very elongated NNW-SSE. A mag 14.5 star is just off the NW edge 0.5' from center. Forms a pair with NGC 2449 6.0' SSW.