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NGC1260

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:17:27.2
Declination: +41:24:19
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Bigourdan
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 12.4

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1260

17.5" (12/19/87): fairly faint, fairly small, oval ~E-W, weak concentration.  This member of AGC 426 is the brightest of three with NGC 1259 2.2' SW.