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NGC1627

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:37:37.9
Declination: -4:53:17
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, pL, R, 2 st sf, s of 2
Sub-type: Sc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1627.  See NGC 1619.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1627

17.5" (1/23/93): faint, fairly small, 1.5'-2' diameter, low even surface brightness.  A mag 11 star is 2.7' SSW.  NGC 1628 lies 10' N and NGC 1621 20' WSW.  The photographic descriptions of NGC 1627 and NGC 1628 are reversed in the RNGC.