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NGC1143
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:55:9.7
Declination: -0:10:41
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, S, R, p of 2
Sub-type: Ring A
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1143 = NGC 1141, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1143
48" (10/25/11): bright, fairly small to moderately large, oval 4:3 WNW-ESE, 0.9'x0.7', well concentrated with a very bright, intense core! Slightly fainter of an interacting pair with highly disrupted NGC 1144, just 35" between centers. The eastern portion of the outer halo of NGC 1143 is merged or overlaps with the halo of NGC 1144 on its northwestern side. 2MASX J02550661-0009448, listed as a 2nd "collider" with NGC 1144 in Madore's 2009 Atlas and Catalogue of Collisional Rings, lies 1.2' NW. The 2MASS galaxy appeared fairly faint, small, very elongated 3:1 N-S, 0.4'x0.15', stellar nucleus.
17.5" (1/7/89): very faint, very small, round. In a common halo with NGC 1144 0.5' ESE. This galaxy is the slightly fainter of the pair.