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NGC1390

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:37:52.2
Declination: -19:0:27
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Muller
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, E 260°
Sub-type: SBa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1390

17.5" (1/12/02): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 SSW-NNE, 1.0'x0.4'.  Very weak concentration along the major axis.  Situated 6' N of a mag 9.8 star and ~40' SW of the NGC 1407 group.