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NGC1200
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:3:54.5
Declination: -11:59:29
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pF, cL, iR, bM, nf of 2
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1200
17.5" (10/20/90): fairly faint, fairly small, round, bright core, halo slightly elongated N-S. There is an extremely faint star or possible companion at the south edge. Third of four and brightest in a compact quartet with NGC 1195 and 1196.
NGC 1200 forms a close pair with IC 285 3.2' ESE. The IC companion was logged as "very faint, small, elongated 5:2 WNW-ESE, very low even surface brightness."