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NGC1278

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:19:54.1
Declination: +41:33:49
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 12.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pB, pS, R, bM
Sub-type: E2

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1278 = IC 1907, which see.  This is not the galaxy that WH and JH saw in
the Perseus Cluster -- that is NGC 1275; see that for the story.

Also see NGC 1276 for which this serves as Dreyer's micrometric reference 
point.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1278

17.5" (10/24/87): fairly faint, fairly small, oval, small bright core.  Located in the central core of AGC 426.  Forms a close pair with NGC 1277 0.8' NW with V Zw 339 1.4' ESE.  NGC 1278 is situated at the NE corner of a parallelogram with NGC 1275 3.4' SSW, NGC 1272 7.5' SW and NGC 1273 5.3' WSW.  V Zw 339 appeared extremely faint and small, round.

13" (1/28/84): faint, small.  Located 3.4' N of NGC 1275 and forms a close pair with NGC 1277.