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NGC1180

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:1:51.0
Declination: -15:1:49
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, R, bMN
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1180

17.5" (1/28/00): extremely faint, very small, slightly elongated N-S, 0.4'x0.3', weak concentration.  Forms a close pair with NGC 1181 2.4' SW.  Located 2' WNW of a mag 12 star.  This galaxy is identified as NGC 1150 in the RNGC.