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NGC1048
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Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:40:37.9
Declination: -8:32:1
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, pS, R, sf of 2
Sub-type: SB0-a
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1048
48" (10/26/16): at 488x; fairly bright, fairly small, elongated 5:2 WNW-ESE, 40"x16", bright core. A mag 14.4 star is 1' NNE. Located 7' SW of NGC 1042.
Forms a similar pair with NGC 1048A 1.0' SW. It was moderately to fairly bright, fairly small, elongated 2:1 N-S, 30"x15", bright core, mottled appearance. LEDA 1002216, a compact companion, is just 30" S. It appeared faint (V = 16.8), very small, round, 10" diameter, low surface brightness.
17.5" (11/26/94): at first glance, appeared as an ill-defined faint glow 1' S of a mag 14 star. One closer inspection, NGC 1048 resolved into a pair of small, faint galaxies 1.0' between centers oriented NNE-SSW. The northern member (generally identified as NGC 1048) is clearly brighter and elongated 2:1 E-W, 0.6'x0.3'. Just 1.0' SSW is a fainter companion (NGC 1048A). Located 7' SSE of the large, low surface brightness system NGC 1042 within a large group.
17.5" (11/1/86): large, very diffuse system best viewed at 83x. There is a slight brightening to the south but the fainter companion was not clearly resolved in poor seeing.