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NGC1616

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:32:41.9
Declination: -43:42:54
Constellation: CAE
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: F, S, E, vglbM
Sub-type: Sbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1616

14" (4/7/16 - Coonabarabran, 184x): fairly faint or moderately bright, elongated 3:2 SSW-NNE, brighter core, stellar nucleus, ~48"x32".  A mag 11 star is 4.4' WNW.

This galaxy is an asymmetric spiral with two arms of different shapes and brightness.