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NGC1657

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:46:7.3
Declination: -2:4:37
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: Fainter but larger than p one
Sub-type: SBbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1657

17.5" (1/23/93): very faint, fairly small, round, low almost even surface brightness.  Located midway between NGC 1654 4.6' W and mag 9.0 SAO 131483 5.1' E.