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NGC1045
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:40:29.1
Declination: -11:16:40
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 12.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, S, R, bM
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1045
17.5" (10/29/94): moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 3:2 SW-NE, 0.8'x0.5', well concentrated to a small prominent core and a stellar nucleus. A nice evenly matched pair of mag 11-12 stars (16" separation in PA 78¡) lies 11' NW.