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NGC1053

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:43:12.5
Declination: +41:30:1
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, lE, 3 or 4 st in line nr
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1053 = NGC 1040, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1053

17.5" (11/27/92): faint, very small, slightly elongated.  Bracketed by two mag 15 stars just off the north and south edges and collinear with three equally spaced stars to the south (mag 11.5 star 2.3' S, a mag 10.5 star 4' S and a mag 13 star 6' S).  Located 5' W of mag 7.5 SAO 38287.  Brightest in a group and forms a pair with UGC 2194 6' SSE.