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NGC1098

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:44:53.6
Declination: -17:39:34
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, R, bMN, 1st of 3
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1098

17.5" (11/26/94): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 E-W, 1.2'x0.8', small bright core, stellar nucleus with direct vision.  Located 5.2' SSW of mag 8.1 SAO 148582!  First in HCG 21 with NGC 1099 6.4' SE, NGC 1100 10.1' ESE, NGC 1091 10.2' NE and NGC 1092 11.1' NE.