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NGC1496

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:4:31.8
Declination: +52:39:41
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 9.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: Cl, segment of a ring
Sub-type: II1p

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1496

17.5" (12/28/94): 20 stars mag 12-15 in a 5' region elongated E-W.  The stars are mainly arranged in a semicircle open to the east with several nice close pairs!  The brightest mag 11 star is on the NE end of the semicircle and the SE end is a very close double.  An isolated mag 10 star is 4' SW and 0.8' NE of this star is an evenly matched mag 14 pair at 7" separation.