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NGC159

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:34:35.4
Declination: -55:47:23
Constellation: PHE
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, R, glbM, 3 st f
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 159

30" (10/13/15 - OzSky): at 303x; fairly faint to moderately bright, elongated nearly 3:1 E-W, 1.0'x0.3', contains a small bright, round core and a stellar nucleus.  Located 29' SSE of mag 7.3 HD 3075 = HJ 3376 (7.5/10 pair at 7").