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NGC1279

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:19:59.1
Declination: +41:28:47
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 15.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Dreyer
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1279 is accurately located by Lord Rosse's micrometric offsets from his 
reference star which is directly between NGC 1272 and NGC 1275.  It is 
certainly not the fainter galaxy superposed on the corona of NGC 1275 as 
suggested by LEDA.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1279

17.5" (8/12/88): very faint, very small, slightly elongated.  Visible continuously with averted vision.  Located in the central core of AGC 426 just 2.8' SE of NGC 1275!  This galaxy is not listed in MCG, CGCG or RC3 and was incorrectly identified in the PGC.

17.5" (10/24/87): very faint, small, slightly elongated ~N-S.

13" (1/28/84): extremely faint, very small, near visual threshold.  Located 2.8' SE of NGC 1275.