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NGC1132
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:52:51.8
Declination: -1:16:28
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1827
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, pL, gbM, * 8 f
Sub-type: E5
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1132
17.5" (11/7/89): faint, small, round, almost even surface brightness, faint stellar nucleus. Located 4.3' WSW of mag 9.5 SAO 130162. Forms a pair with NGC 1126 8' WSW.
NGC 1132 is the prototype of a "Fossil Group" -- the end-product of extensive merging of a once normal group, leaving a massive central galaxy that dominates the luminosity of a X-ray luminous group (delta Rmag ³ 2.0 with next brightest group member).