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NGC1121

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:50:39.1
Declination: -1:44:3
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: F, mE
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1121

17.5" (12/28/94): fairly faint, small, elongated 2:1 N-S, 0.6'x0.3', well concentrated with a small bright core and a stellar nucleus.  Located 1.7' SSW of a mag 10 star in the northwest corner of Eridanus.