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NGC1523
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:6:11.0
Declination: -54:5:16
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, R
Sub-type: *4
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1523 is only a group of 5-7 stars. JH's position is good, but his
description from a single night is sparce. Delisle Stewart first saw the
object as a group of stars on a Bruce plate from Arequipa, then Andris and I
picked it up during our surveys of the southern sky in the 1970's.
At first glance there are only four stars here. However, at least two of them
appear to be blends of fainter stars, so there are probably at least six stars
altogether in the asterism.