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NGC1964
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:33:21.8
Declination: -21:56:43
Constellation: LEP
Visual Magnitude: 10.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, vS, R, vsvmbM * 12, 3 st inv
Sub-type: SBb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1964
17.5" (12/3/88): fairly faint, fairly large, very elongated 3:1 SSW-NNE, unusually bright stellar nucleus. ÊA mag 13.5 star is at the west edge 0.7' from center and a mag 14 star is at the SSW edge of the major axis 1.2' from center. Situated just southeast of a thin triangle of mag 9.5-10.5 stars, the closest being mag 9.3 SAO 170546 1.7' NW of center.
13" (12/18/82): faint, elongated, small bright nucleus, fairly small, faint halo surrounded core.