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NGC1169
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:3:34.8
Declination: +46:23:11
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 11.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pF, pS, iF, sbM
Sub-type: SBb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1169
17.5" (10/24/87): moderately bright, very small, bright core. With averted vision a large extremely faint halo is visible elongated SW-NE. A mag 13.5 star is superimposed at the SW side of the core!
This galaxy is located just 10.6¡ from the galactic equator. This is a huge spiral, with a diameter of 170,000 light-years.
8" (1/1/84): faint, very small, slightly elongated. Only the core was visible as I missed the large halo.