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NGC Objects: NGC 600 - 649
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NGC 602
A 5-million-year old open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud
The upper picture shows the cluster and its immediate environs.
The lower picture shows a wider HST view of the region, including a number of distant galaxies.
(NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration, apod100403)
HST image of NGC 602
HST view of NGC 602 and the surrounding region

NGC 648 (= IC 146 = PGC 6083 = PGC 144217 = PGC 876776)
Discovered (1886) by Francis Leavenworth
A 14th-magnitude spiral galaxy (type SA0 pec) in Cetus (RA 01 38 40, Dec -17 49 52)

(See IC 146 for a discussion of the double listing.) Based on recessional velocity of 10595 km/sec, about 475 million light years away. Given that and apparent size of 1.0 by 0.5 arcmin, about 140 thousand light years across.

Wikisky SDSS image of NGC 648
Above, a 1.2 arcmin wide closeup of NGC 648
Below, a 12 arcmin wide region centered on the galaxy
Wikisky SDSS image of region near NGC 648
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NGC Objects: NGC 600 - 649
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