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NGC1588

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:30:43.7
Declination: +0:39:55
Constellation: TAU
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1783
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, R, r, f of D neb
Sub-type: E5

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1588

17.5" (2/3/03): fairly faint/moderately bright, fairly small, 0.6'x0.5', sharply concentrated with a very bright stellar nucleus.  Smaller and fainter of close pair with NGC 1587 just 0.9' W.

13" (12/22/84): faint, very small.  Forms a close pair with brighter NGC 1587 1' W.