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NGC1206

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:6:9.7
Declination: -8:49:58
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.5

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, vlE 0°
Sub-type: E0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1206

18" (1/1/08): extremely faint, very small, round, 15" diameter.  Visible ~80% of the time using averted vision as a very low surface brightness knot with no structure.  Located 6.5' N of a mag 10.5 star.  The edge-on streak identified as NGC 1206 in the RNGC is actually a plate flaw.