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NGC1263

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:15:39.5
Declination: -15:5:54
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, lE, sbM
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1263

17.5" (12/30/99): extremely faint and small, round, 15" diameter.  Requires averted to glimpse.  Once or twice the small halo disappeared and an extremely faint stellar nucleus was momentarily visible.