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NGC587

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:32:33.3
Declination: +35:21:30
Constellation: TRI
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: vvF, S, ? S Cl
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 587 is not IC 1713, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 587 17.5" (12/23/89): fairly faint, fairly small, oval WSW-ENE, even surface brightness.