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NGC590

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:33:40.7
Declination: +44:55:45
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: F, vS, rr ?
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 590 17.5" (9/26/92): fairly faint, small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, broad concentration, faint almost stellar nucleus, rich star field. There is a group of mag 10 stars in the field to the north including mag 10 stars 2.1' ENE, 3.2' N and 4.5' NNE.