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NGC1118

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:49:58.7
Declination: -12:9:50
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, E pf
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1118

17.5" (12/28/94): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 E-W, 1.2'x0.4'.  The small, rounder bright core contains a faint stellar nucleus.  A wide unequal pair [mag 12/14 at 33" separation] lies 5' NE.