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NGC1191

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:3:30.8
Declination: -15:41:8
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, R, p h 286
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1191

17.5" (10/13/90): extremely faint and small, round.  A mag 14 star is 1.5' S.  Forms a very close quadruple (HCG 22) with NGC 1192 1.0' ENE, NGC 1190 1.8' NW and NGC 1199 4' NNE.  This galaxy and NGC 1192 have 3x higher redshift than the other group members.