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NGC1544

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:2:36.2
Declination: +86:13:22
Constellation: CEP
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information


Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: S?

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1544 18" (8/1/11): fairly faint, small, round, sharply concentrated with a very small, bright nucleus. A 10" pair of mag 14.5 stars is at the north edge and a second wider pair at 18" separation (mag 13.6/14.4) is off the NW side. Located 10' WNW of a very distinctive 2' string of equally spaced mag 9.5/10/11 stars (SAO 785/786). 17.5" (3/19/88): fairly faint, small, round. Several faint stars are near including an evenly matched mag 14.5 pair with 10" separation at the north edge 20" from center. This is the second closest NGC galaxy to the north celestial pole.