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NGC539

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:25:21.7
Declination: -18:9:52
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information


Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS, R
Sub-type: SBc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 539 = NGC 563, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 539 17.5" (12/23/92): very faint, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S, low even surface brightness. Followed by a line of three mag 13-14 stars oriented SSW-NNE located 3.2' SSE, 2.6' SE and 2.7' NE.