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NGC1251

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 3:14:9.1
Declination: +1:27:25
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information


Discoverer: Coolidge
Year of discovery: 1860
Discovery aperture: 15.0

Observational


Summary description: F
Sub-type: *2

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 1251 is a double star. It is so close to Coolidge's position that Reinmuth had no trouble identifying it as the NGC object. This is one of many asterisms in the list of "nebulae" found visually at Harvard in the late 1850s.