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NGC1592
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:29:40.7
Declination: -27:24:29
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: S/P
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1592
17.5" (2/3/03): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 E-W, 0.8'x0.4', fairly low even surface brightness. At moments, there appeared to be an extension or companion attached on the following side. On the DSS, this is an unusual (multiple?) galaxy (PGC 15285 and 15292) with two off-center knots or condensations, one on the east end! A perfect parallelogram of stars with sides 3'x1' lies 5' SE (brightest stars mag 10 on the south side).
John Herschel's position is off by 27' in declination and ESO (421-IG 002A/B) and MCG (-05-11-011) do not equate this galaxy with NGC 1592, while RNGC lists NGC 1592 as nonexistent.