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NGC1563

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:22:53.9
Declination: -15:43:58
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 15.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, R, lbM, D
Sub-type: E?

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1563

17.5" (12/30/99): this member of the NGC 1561 group was a marginal object -- requiring averted vision and only glimpsed ~10% of the time as a 15" featureless knot just 1.7' WNW of NGC 1564 and 7' NNW of NGC 1561.

17.5" (2/8/91): Not found.