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NGC1407

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:40:11.8
Declination: -18:34:49
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 9.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vB, L, R, svmbMN
Sub-type: E1

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1407

17.5" (12/11/99): bright, moderately large, round, 1.5' diameter, bright core, nearly stellar nucleus.  Brightest in the NGC 1407 Group (LGG 100), which includes 8 NGC galaxies and IC 343.

13" (1/18/85): bright, fairly small, bright core, stellar nucleus.  Forms a wide pair with NGC 1400 11.6' SW.  

8" (10/13/81): bright, small, round, small bright core.