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NGC1559
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:17:36.7
Declination: -62:47:2
Constellation: RET
Visual Magnitude: 10.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: vB, vL, mE, vgpmbM, * 14 att n
Sub-type: SBc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1559
13.1" (2/18/04 - Costa Rica): moderately bright, fairly large, elongated 2:1 WSW-ENE, 3.0'x1.5', broad weak concentration, slightly mottled. A mag 13.5 star is off the southwest end, 2' from center and a brighter mag 12 star is 4.7' from center. Located 30' SE of mag 3.3 Alpha Reticulum and 28' N of the mag 6.1/7.8 double star Theta Reticulum.
NGC 1559 is a member of the NGC 1672 Group in the Dorado Cloud complex that includes NGC 1672, NGC 1688, NGC 1796 and NGC 1703. Images reveal a number of HII knots, though other than some mottling I didn't note these.