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NGC1064
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:42:23.3
Declination: -9:21:46
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, S, R
Sub-type: Sc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1064
17.5" (11/10/96): very faint, fairly small, round, 30" diameter. Requires averted vision but can hold with concentration due to a very low even surface brightness. Forms a pair with brighter MCG -2-7-72 6.8' SSE (on the first observation of the field, this galaxy was assumed to be NGC 1064) and it is surprising that Leavenworth did not pick up MCG -2-7-72. NGC 1064 is a face-on spiral with a small core and much fainter arms (halo) and I missed it twice from the brighter skies east of Mt Hamilton.