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NGC1599

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:31:38.8
Declination: -4:35:19
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1881
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R, vlbM
Sub-type: Sc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1599 may also be NGC 1610, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1599

17.5" (2/1/92): faint, very small, round, slight central brightening.  Located just 1.1' W of mag 9.1 SAO 131769.  Member of the NGC 1600 group with NGC 1607 10' NE.