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NGC1540

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 4:15:10.2
Declination: -28:28:46
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS, E, gvlbM, r
Sub-type: Sab

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 1540. Earlier, I wrote: "NGC 1540 is probably the southern galaxy of the interacting pair. It is somewhat brighter and more concentrated than the northern." On the blue IIIa-J plate, this may be true, but on the red IIIa-F plate, it is the northern galaxy that looks a bit brighter. So, I'm going to suggest now (December 2013) that the entire ragged system -- rather than just one of the components -- is JH's object.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1540 18" (1/21/04): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 ~N-S, ~0.8'x0.5'. Appears to have a star or quasi-stellar knot at the north tip -- this is actually an interacting galaxy [NGC 1540B]! Located 8' SW mag 9.4 SAO 169272 (wide double).