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NGC120

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:27:30.1
Declination: -1:30:49
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: Nebulous *
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 120 is correctly described as being about 10 arcmin north of the 
comparison star in Tempel's original paper.  However, as noted first by
Bigourdan, the NGC position is about 5 arcmin off.  This is apparently one of
the positions that Tempel sent to Dreyer as a private communication since only
the description is published.  See NGC 122 and NGC 123 for a bit more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 120

17.5" (10/8/88): faint, very small, oval WSW-ENE, small bright core, stellar nucleus.  Located 16' NNE of the NGC 114/NGC 118 pair.