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NGC1400
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:39:30.7
Declination: -18:41:17
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 11.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: cB, pS, R, psmbM
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1400
17.5" (12/11/99): fairly bright, moderately large, slightly elongated, brighter core, stellar nucleus. Smaller and fainter than NGC 1407 11' NE. Possible member of the NGC 1407 group.
13" (1/18/85): moderately bright, small, round, bright core, stellar nucleus, small faint halo. Forms a wide pair with NGC 1407 11.6' NE.
8" (10/13/81): faint, very small, round. Situated 11' SW of NGC 1407.