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NGC543

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:25:50.0
Declination: -1:17:33
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: eF, eS
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 543 48" (10/22/11): fairly bright/bright, fairly small, elongated 3:1 E-W, 0.6'x0.2', contains a small bright core. MCG +00-04-140 lies 1.5' SSE. In a string of galaxies oriented SSW-NNE in AGC 194 with NGC 545/547 4' SE. 17.5" (9/19/87): faint, small, very elongated ~E-W. Located 4.5' NW of NGC 545/NGC 547 duo in the core of AGC 194. 13" (9/22/84): very faint, very small.