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NGC1267

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 3:18:44.8
Declination: +41:28:3
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: F, vS, R, stell
Sub-type: E2

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1267 17.5" (10/24/87): faint, very small, round, faint stellar nucleus. Forms a close pair with NGC 1268 1.0' N with CGCG 540-089 1.8' NW and NGC 1270 2.6' E. Located in the rich central section of AGC 426 with CGCG 540-087 5.5' SW, NGC 1272 7.0' ENE and NGC 1275 12.2' ENE. CGCG 540-089 is extremely faint and small, round. Two mag 14 stars are close south just 16" and 32" from the center. CGCG 540-087 is faint, small, slightly elongated ~N-S. A mag 13.5 star is 0.8' N of center. 13" (1/28/84): very faint, small, compact, arc of stars just south. In a group of 4 in AGC 426.