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NGC1268

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:18:45.2
Declination: +41:29:21
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, lE, com
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1268

17.5" (10/24/87): extremely faint and small, round, faint stellar nucleus.  Forms a close pair with NGC 1267 1.2' S.  Also very near are CGCG 540-089 1.8' SW and NGC 1270 is 2.7' ESE.  Located in the central core of AGC 426 with NGC 1272 6.8' E. 

13" (1/28/84): extremely faint, very small, diffuse.  Located 1' N of NGC 1267 in AGC 426.