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NGC593

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 1:32:20.6
Declination: -12:21:16
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: vS, Cl, lE, nebulous
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 593

17.5" (9/26/92): extremely faint, small, very elongated 3:1 ~N-S, low surface brightness.  In a small group with NGC 589 12' NE and NGC 601 3.3' ESE (see observation of 10/4/97).  Incorrectly described as a nebulous cluster by Stephan.