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NGC160
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:36:4.1
Declination: +23:57:29
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, stell, * 8, 17°, 4'
Sub-type: S0-a
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 160 is not NGC 162, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 160
24" (9/30/16): at 200x; fairly bright or bright, large, elongated 2:1 or 5:2 SW-NE, sharply concentrated with a small very bright core that increases to a stellar nucleus. Surrounding the core is a large, low surface brightness halo ~1.8'x0.8'. Situated 4.3' SSW of mag 7.3 HD 3293. NGC 169/IC 1559 (close pair) lies 11' ENE and mag 6.2 HD 2311 is 15' ENE.
13.1" (10/20/84): moderately bright, almost round. Located 4.2' SSW of mag 7.5 SAO 74134. Forms a wide pair with NGC 169 11' ENE.