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NGC427

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:12:19.2
Declination: -32:3:40
Constellation: SCL
Visual Magnitude: 14.0

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: 3 vS st with neby (?)
Sub-type: SBa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 427

17.5" (10/4/97): extremely faint, very small, round, 20" diameter (only core viewed?).  Required averted vision and GSC finder chart to identify at 280x.  Located in a sparse field.  A couple of very faint nearby stars were not recorded.