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NGC1516

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:8:7.5
Declination: -8:49:46
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: eeF, S, E, psmbM, er
Sub-type: SBbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1516 is a double galaxy which is identical to NGC 1524 and NGC 1525.  See
those for the story.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1516

17.5" (2/11/96): at first view (fairly poor seeing) appeared as a single but irregular galaxy elongated 2:1 NNW-SSE, 1.0'x0.5'.  In periods of better seeing, the system resolved into an extremely close contact pair with the brighter component at the SSE end, round, 25" diameter.  The fainter component is attached at the NNW end, round, 20" diameter.  A mag 15 star lies 1' S.