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NGC1120

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:49:4.0
Declination: -14:28:13
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, bM
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1120 = IC 261.  Leavenworth's RA for this is just over a minute of time 
larger than Javelle's correct one.  But Leavenworth left us a sketch which 
clearly shows the galaxy in the surrounding star field.  The identity is
certain.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1120

17.5" (11/18/95): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 40" diameter.  Even concentration to a bright core and nearly stellar nucleus.  A faint, close double star lies 4.2' SSW and 5' NW is a small group of four mag 13 stars (includes a 30" pair).