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NGC1660
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:44:11.1
Declination: -41:29:52
Constellation: CAE
Visual Magnitude: 14.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1837
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, lE, glbM
Sub-type: Sa
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1660
18" (1/17/09): not picked up initially at 175x, but just visible at 225x as an extremely faint, round, glow ~20" in diameter (the elongation was not evident). After viewing at the higher magnification, I was able to go back and glimpse the galaxy at 175x. Forms a 3' pair with brighter NGC 1658 to the NW. Located 6' ENE of mag 9.9 HD 30203 and 2' SW of a mag 14 star. Viewed at a very low elevation from Lake Sonoma although the seeing was very good fairly close to the horizon.