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NGC1542

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:17:14.1
Declination: +4:46:55
Constellation: TAU
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, E
Sub-type: Sab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1542

17.5" (2/11/96): very faint, small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 40"x20", very weak concentration.  A mag 14.5 star is 0.9' ENE of center.  Collinear with a 1' pair of mag 11 stars about 5' SE.