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NGC399

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:8:59.1
Declination: +32:38:1
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Parsons L.
Year of discovery: 1874
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R
Sub-type: SBa

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 399.  See NGC 400.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 399

18" (11/18/06): this member of the NGC 383 group ("Pisces Group") appeared fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 SW-NE, 0.7'x0.45', weak even concentration.

17.5" (12/23/89): faint, small, slightly elongated N-S, even concentration to bright core, substellar nucleus.  NGC 403 is 7.5' NE and NGC 398 7' SSW.