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NGC1166
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:0:34.9
Declination: +11:50:34
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 14.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, S
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1166
17.5" (1/9/99): very faint, fairly small, weak concentration. The halo is ill-defined but appears irregularly round, ~0.8'x0.6. A couple of mag 15.5 stars are within 1' of the west side. Also confusing the observation is a superimposed mag 15.5+ star at the north edge which pops in and out of view for moments. A wide pair of mag 14 stars lie 3' NE. Forms a pair with fainter NGC 1168 5.2' SE.