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NGC1226
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:11:5.4
Declination: +35:23:11
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 12.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1879
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: F, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: E2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1226 is probably also NGC 832, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1226
17.5" (1/1/92): fairly faint, fairly small, round, bright core. Forms a pair with NGC 1227 4' SSE.