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NGC1584

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:28:10.2
Declination: -17:31:26
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.0

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: F, eS, R, sbMN
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1584

17.5" (11/10/96): very faint, small, round, 30" diameter, low even surface brightness.  Forms a pair with NGC 1584 5.0' SSE.  Collinear with a nice wellÐmatched double star 6.5' NE and a mag 13 star 5.0' NE.