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NGC1262

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:15:33.6
Declination: -15:52:48
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, pS, iR, sbMN
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1262

17.5" (12/30/99): extremely faint, very small, round, 0.4' diameter, no concentration.  Requires averted vision and could not hold steadily.  A mag 15 star lies 1.0' SW.  The redshift-based distance of this galaxy is nearly 1.1 billion l.y., with a second measurement in NED yielding 1.4 billion l.y.!