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NGC1168

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:0:47.0
Declination: +11:46:20
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 14.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: eF
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1168

17.5" (1/9/99): extremely faint, very small, round, 20" diameter.  Probably only viewed the core (the arms are very low surface brightness on the digitized sky survey).  Located midway between NGC 1166 5.2' NW and mag 9 SAO 93236 to the SE.