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NGC1380
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:36:27.5
Declination: -34:58:31
Constellation: FOR
Visual Magnitude: 9.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: vB, L, R, psbM
Sub-type: SB0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1380
18" (12/17/11): extremely bright, large, elongated ~5:3 N-S, ~3.0'x1.8'. Sharply concentrated with an intense, elongated core that brightens to the center, though there was no evident nucleus. A mag 13.5 star is superimposed ~0.9' SW of center. This is one of the brightest Fornax cluster galaxies.
13.1" (12/22/84): very bright, elongated 2:1 N-S, bright core, faint elongated halo. A very faint mag 14 star is SW of the core 1.2' from the center. Member of Fornax I cluster.
8" (10/13/81): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated, bright core.