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NGC1056

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:42:48.4
Declination: +28:34:28
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 12.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: F, S, R, psbM
Sub-type: Sa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1056

17.5" (12/23/92): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE, increases to rounder small bright core.  A mag 12 star is 2.2' ENE.