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NGC1292

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:18:14.8
Declination: -27:36:38
Constellation: FOR
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Barnard
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 6.0

Observational

Summary description: F, pS, lE, vgbM, S D * nr
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1292

13.1" (10/10/86): fairly faint, fairly small, oval 2:1 SSW-NNE, bright core.  A group of four stars lies to the north includes a mag 11 double star at 24" separation 3' NE, a third mag 11 star 4.4' NNE and a mag 12 star 3' due north.