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NGC1606

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:32:3.3
Declination: -5:1:55
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stoney J.
Year of discovery: 1849
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: eF
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1606

17.5" (12/26/00): extremely faint, very small, round, ~15" diameter.  Required averted and much harder to view than IC 373 which was just observed.  Located 7' NE of NGC 1600 and 4.5' W of mag 7.6 SAO 131278 within the large NGC 1600 group.