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NGC1580
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:28:18.4
Declination: -5:10:45
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1877
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, R, r
Sub-type: Sbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1580
17.5" (2/11/96): faint, fairly small, irregularly round, 50" diameter. Broad concentration with a brighter center but no well-defined core. A mag 15 star is just off the following end 48" from center and a mag 14 star is 1.4' WNW. There is an 30" pair of mag 12/13.5 stars ~3' SE. Located 10' NNE of mag 9 SAO 131233, which is at the edge of the 220x field, and 1 degree west of the NGC 1600 group.