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NGC1202

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 3:5:2.4
Declination: -6:29:31
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.2

Historic Information


Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational


Summary description: eF, S, 2 st 4' nf
Sub-type: Sb

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 1202 is positively identified by the wide double star at PA = 45 deg, d = 4 arcmin, mentioned in Stone's description. The galaxy is not, by the way, identical to IC 286 (which see) -- Bigourdan "observed" them on the same night in December of 1890.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1202 17.5" (1/12/02): very faint, small, round, 25" diameter, low even surface brightness. A pair of mag 14/15 star (32" separation) lie 1' SE. Located 4' SW of a 20" pair of mag 10.5/11.5 stars and 4.8' SSW of a mag 10.3 star.