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NGC1427
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:42:19.2
Declination: -35:23:34
Constellation: FOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1837
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: pF, S, R, psmbM
Sub-type: E3
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1427. See NGC 1436.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1427
18" (12/17/11): bright, fairly large, elongated 4:3 ~E-W, 2.0'x1.5'. Well concentrated with a very bright, rounder 25" core that increases to a quasi-stellar nucleus. A mag 12.5-13 star is 1.7' W, a bit outside the halo.
18" (1/21/04): fairly bright, fairly large, oval 3:2 WSW-ENE, 2.0'x1.4'. Contains a large, prominent core which is rounder than the halo.
8" (1/1/84): fairly faint, small, slightly elongated E-W, diffuse. Member of the Fornax I cluster.