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NGC1289

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:18:49.8
Declination: -1:58:23
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, 4 st f
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1289 = IC 314, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1289

17.5" (12/28/94): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 E-W, broad concentration to a brighter core.  An 8' line of four mag 11-13 stars oriented SW-NE follows; the closest is a mag 11 star 3.6' ESE.  NGC 1298 lies 22' SE.