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NGC1700
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Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:56:56.2
Declination: -4:51:55
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 11.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: cB, S, mbM *
Sub-type: E4
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1700
17.5" (12/23/89): bright, fairly small, oval 4:3 E-W, very bright core. Located 6' SSE of mag 7.8 SAO 131619. Forms a pair with NGC 1699 6.7' N.
13" (12/18/82): fairly bright, small, round, small bright core. Located 20' NNE of 62 Eridani (V = 5.5).