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NGC7486
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 23:6:13.4
Declination: +34:6:8
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Copeland
Year of discovery: 1871
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, 2' f h 2207
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 7486 is a tight group of four stars about two arcmin southeast of N7485.
Copeland found it on 25 August 1871 with LdR's 72-inch, and Dreyer managed a
quick micrometric measurement with the same telescope on 3 December 1877 just
before "Clouds and fog came on." That measurement, with respect to N7485 --
position angle 109.5+- degrees, distance 114 arcsec -- pins down the asterism
exactly.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 7486
17.5" (8/13/88): this number refers to three mag 15 stars located ~2' ESE NGC 7485. Not knowing the nature of this object, I logged NGC 7486 as "very faint, extremely small, forming a close pair with a mag 15 star" and assumed this observation referred to a very small galaxy. But on the DSS the "extremely small" object is just two very close mag 15 stars that form a tight triple with the mag 15 star. Using Lord Rosse's 72", Copeland made the same error.