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NGC1468

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:52:12.5
Declination: -6:20:55
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1881
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1468

17.5" (2/11/96): very faint, very small, round, 30" diameter, weak even concentration to an occasional stellar nucleus.  A mag 14.5 star is 1.0' ENE of center.  Located ~3' N of a 1' pair of mag 11/12 stars.