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NGC1689

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:48:37.0
Declination: -6:19:13
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pB, pS, lE
Sub-type: SBc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1689 = NGC 1667 is five minutes of time off its true position.  See NGC
1677 = NGC 1659 for more on the nebulae that Swift found this night of 22 
October 1886. 

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1689

See observing notes for NGC 1667.