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NGC1363

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:34:49.5
Declination: -9:50:32
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Burnham
Year of discovery: 1877
Discovery aperture: 18.5

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, * 7 sp 3'.5, sp of 2
Sub-type: Sbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1363

17.5" (11/17/01): fairly faint, fairly small, irregularly round, 0.7'x0.6', very weak concentration.  Forms a close pair with NGC 1364 2.3' following.  Forms the NE vertex of an equilateral triangle with mag 6.2 SAO 149047 3.3' WSW and mag 9.3 SAO 149051 3.7' S!