Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 51 25.1
- Declination
- +35 ° 49 ′ 18 ″
- Constellation
- Andromeda
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star cluster
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 272.png
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- catalog code
- C 0048+355
- Commons category
- NGC 272
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-08-02
- apparent magnitude
- 8.5
- right ascension
- 12.825
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination
- 35.833
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 272 is an open cluster (rather an L-shaped asterism) located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on August 2, 1864, by Heinrich d'Arrest.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 272” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.