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NGC1661
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:47:7.7
Declination: -2:3:18
Constellation: ORI
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1881
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, bM
Sub-type: Sbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1661
13.1" (12/23/89): faint, small, almost round, bright core. A line of four mag 12-13.5 stars is 1.5' S oriented E-W with length 1.7'. In a group with NGC 1654 and NGC 1657.