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NGC1081

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 2:45:5.4
Declination: -15:35:15
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: eF, pS, R
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1081 18" (11/26/03): at 160x appears faint, fairly small, very elongated 5:2 or 3:1 SSW-NNE, 1.0'x0.35', low even surface brightness. Located 10' S of mag 7.6 SAO 14856. NGC 1105 = IC 1840 lies 20' WSW and NGC 1083 is 16' NE. 17.5" (11/26/94): faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 SSW-NNE, 1.2'x0.5', uniform surface brightness. Located 10' SSW of mag 8.2 SAO 148586 at the edge of the 220x field. A wide pair of mag 11/12 stars at 1.1' separation is 5' E and a mag 14.5 star is 2' NE. The mag 8 star to the north is surrounded by a halo of 7 faint mag 14 stars! First of three with NGC 1083 16' NE.