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NGC1283

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:20:15.5
Declination: +41:23:55
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Bigourdan
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 12.4

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, vlbM
Sub-type: E1

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1283

17.5" (8/12/88): faint, small, round.  A pair of stars are close north.

17.5" (11/14/87): faint, very small, slightly elongated.  Forms the southern vertex of an isosceles triangle with a mag 13.5 star 1' N and a mag 14 star 1' NNW.  This member of AGC 426 forms a pair with NGC 1282 2' SSW.