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NGC1272
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:19:21.3
Declination: +41:29:26
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 11.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: F, S, R
Sub-type: E1
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1272. See NGC 1279.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1272
17.5" (10/24/87): fairly faint, small, round, small bright core. This galaxy is the second brightest in AGC 426 and forms the SW vertex of a distinctive parallelogram of brighter galaxies with NGC 1275 5' ENE, NGC 1273 3.1' NNE and NGC 1278/1277 7.5' NE. Also located midway between NGC 1275 and NGC 1270 4.4' WSW.
13" (1/28/84): fairly faint, fairly small, bright core.
8" (1/1/84): extremely faint and small, round.