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NGC7119
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 21:46:15.7
Declination: -46:30:56
Constellation: GRU
Visual Magnitude: 12.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: F, S, R, gbM
Sub-type: SBbc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 7119. JH has this interacting pair as a single object, describing it as
"Not vF, S, R, gbM; 20[arcsec]" in a single sweep. His position is very
nearly coincident with the fainter, southern galaxy, but he almost certainly
saw only the larger, brighter, northern galaxy. So, I have called that one
"NGC 7119". Note, too, that the pair are the brightest two galaxies in a
group.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 7119
25" (10/10/15 - OzSky): at 318x; moderately bright, fairly small large, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, ~30"x20", weak concentration. A mag 14.5 star is 0.8' SW. On carefully viewing NGC 7119 I noticed there was a "bulge" extending out slightly on the southwest side of the galaxy and occasionally there appeared to be a very faint superimposed "star" within this glow.
The contact "bulge" is identified in NED as NGC 7119B = ESO 288-001, and is probably an interacting companion (same redshift). The "star" that I noted is likely the brighter stellar nucleus of this galaxy. NGC 7119 is the brightest member of the cluster ACO S971.