Abell 347 in Andromeda

Abell 347 is easy to find, lying about 45 arcminutes southeast of a bright well-known edge-on, NGC 891. Its members include seven NGC galaxies, four of them brighter than 14th magnitude, within a 20 arcminute field.


Observing Notes by Steve Gottlieb

N0906 = U01868 = M+07-06-012 = Z539-014
02 25.3 +42 05
13: fairly faint, small, round. Located in the core of Abell 347 with N909 3.5' S.

N0909 = U01872 = M+07-06-013 = Z539-016
02 25.4 +42 02
13: fairly faint, very small, round, compact. Located 4' ENE of a mag 9.5 star. Forms a pair with N906 in the core of Abell 347.

N0910 = U01875 = M+07-06-014 = Z539-017
02 25.4 +41 49
13: fairly bright, small, round. Located in the core of Abell 347 with N911 8.5' NNE and N913 3.5' ESE.

N0911 = U01878 = M+07-06-016 = Z539-021
02 25.7 +41 57
13: fairly faint, small, slightly elongated. Located 2.1' S of mag 9.2 SAO 38019. Member of Abell 347 with N910 8.4' SSW.

N0912 = M+07-06-015 = Z539-020
02 25.8 +41 47
13: extremely faint, extremely small, round. Forms a close pair with N913 1.3' N. Located 4' ESE of N910 in the core of Abell 347.

N0913
02 25.8 +41 48
13: extremely faint, extremely small, round. Located 3.5' ESE of N910 in the core of Abell 347. Forms a close pair with N912 1.3' S.

N0914 = U01887 = M+07-06-017 = Z539-023
02 26.1 +42 09
13: very faint, fairly small, diffuse, almost round. Located at the NE corner of the core of Abell 347.