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NGC1276
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:19:51.1
Declination: +41:38:33
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dreyer
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1276 is a double star mixed in with the many galaxies in the Perseus
Cluster. Dreyer himself found it while making micrometric measurements of the
cluster galaxies in 1876. Fortunately, he has recorded his measurement of the
object (352.3 degrees position angle, 291 arcsec distant from NGC 1278) so
that we can positively identify it. I make the PA 352.5 and the distance 283
arcsec, not significantly different from Dreyer's numbers.