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NGC1339
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:28:6.5
Declination: -32:17:8
Constellation: FOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: cB, pS, R, psbM, D * p
Sub-type: E3
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1339
18" (12/22/11): fairly bright, fairly small, elongated 4:3 or 3:2 ~N-S, 0.9'x0.6'. Has a high surface brightness and evenly increases to a small bright core and stellar nucleus. Located 6' SE of double star HJ 3578 = 9.2/12.6 at 27".
13.1" (10/10/86): moderately bright, very compact, round, bright core. An uneven mag 10.5/13 double star at 30" separation lies 6' NW. Member of the Fornax I cluster.