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NGC7770

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 23:51:22.5
Declination: +20:5:49
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS, iR, s of 2
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 7770 24" (10/5/13): moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 5:3 SSW-NNE, 0.5'x0.3', contains a small bright core. Forms a close pair with much larger NGC 7771, 1.1' NNE. 17.5" (8/31/86): fairly faint, slightly elongated, brighter core. Forms a double system with much brighter NGC 7771 just 1.1' NNE in the NGC 7769 group. 13" (9/9/83): very faint, very small, round. Forms a close pair with NGC 7771 1' SSE.