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NGC1686

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:52:54.7
Declination: -15:20:47
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, mE 30°
Sub-type: Sbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1686

17.5" (2/2/02): very faint, small, round, 20" diameter, low even surface brightness.  Elongation not seen, so I only viewed the brighter core region as this galaxy is nearly edge-on SSW-NNE.  A mag 13 star follows by 2'.