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NGC1589

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:30:45.4
Declination: +0:51:48
Constellation: TAU
Visual Magnitude: 11.8

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: F, pL, lE 132°, * 42°, 80"
Sub-type: Sab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1589

17.5" (2/3/03): very nice moderately large edge-on 4:1 NNW-SSE, 1.3'x0.3'.  Contains a bright core with faint extensions.  In a trio with NGC 1587/1588 12' S.

13" (12/22/84): moderately bright, edge-on 4:1 NNW-SSE, fairly small, small bright core.  Forms a wide pair with NGC 1587 12' S.