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NGC1264

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:17:59.5
Declination: +41:31:13
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, vlbM
Sub-type: SBab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1264 is UGC 2643.  Bigourdan's position is within 5 arcsec of the GSC 
position, so there is no doubt about the identification.  RNGC has mistakenly
put the number N1264 on CGCG 540-085, which is about 5 arcmin southwest of the
real NGC 1264.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1264

17.5" (12/3/88): very faint, small, round, low surface brightness.  An extremely faint companion is 1.5' SSW.  Member of AGC 426.

CGCG 540-085, which RNGC misidentifies as NGC 1264, is 4.4' SSW.  It appeared very faint, extremely small, round, even surface brightness.  Three stars forming a right triangle are 2'-3'  west.