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NGC1489

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:57:38.1
Declination: -19:13:2
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, pS, E 190°
Sub-type: SBb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1489

17.5" (2/22/03): very faint, fairly small, elongated ~2:1 SSW-NNE, 0.9'x0.4', nearly uniform surface brightness.  Situated between a mag 10.8 star 2.7' W and a mag 11.4 star 4' NE.