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NGC1577

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:26:20.5
Declination: -10:5:56
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, pL, R, lbM, * nr s
Sub-type: SB?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1577 = NGC 1575, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1577

17.5" (2/8/91): fairly faint, irregularly round, gradually increases to small bright core, possible faint stellar nucleus.  Located 2' N of a mag 10.5 star and 13' SE of mag 6.9 SAO 149622.