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NGC2724

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 9:1:1.8
Declination: +35:45:45
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1832
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: eF, S, stellar
Sub-type: SBc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 2724 is most likely UGC 4726 with an error of almost a minute of time in RA. It's just possible, however, that the NGC number refers to NGC 2719 since JH found that during another sweep. And U4726 is as far north of JH's declination as N2719 is south (about 2 arcmin). But N2719 is another 45 seconds west of U4726, so would require a larger RA correction. Thus, my preference is to set N2724 = U4726.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2724 17.5" (3/20/93): very faint, moderately large, round, low even surface brightness. Located 2.8' NE of a mag 10 star which detracts from viewing. At the edge of the 220x field is mag 7.7 SAO 61205 10' NE. In a trio with NGC 2719 and NGC 2719A 10' WSW. This galaxy is not identified as NGC 2724 in the UGC, CGCG or MCG.