NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
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NGC1560
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:32:47.5
Declination: +71:52:46
Constellation: CAM
Visual Magnitude: 11.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, L, E, * 9.3 sp
Sub-type: Scd
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1560 is not IC 2062 as I supposed in RC2. I2062 (which see) is a star.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1560
17.5" (2/20/95): fairly faint, very large, 6'x1', low surface brightness edge-on SSW-NNE. Broad weak concentration with no distinct core but there a central 2' brightening. A mag 13 star is embedded on the preceding side of the NNE extension. The galaxy appears to extend very faintly beyond this towards a mag 12 star further north. Another mag 13 star is superimposed at the SSW end and a brighter mag 11.5 star is just following the tip of this extension. Member of the IC 342/Maffei I group, a nearby but obscured group of galaxies.
8" (1/1/84): very faint, fairly large, edge-on SSW-NNE, low even surface brightness. Appears as a ghostly streak.