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NGC1273

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:19:26.8
Declination: +41:32:24
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1273

17.5" (10/24/87): faint, very small, round, small bright core.  Forms the NW vertex of a parallelogram of brighter galaxies in the core of AGC 426 with NGC 1272 3.1' SSW, NGC 1275 4.4' ESE, and NGC 1278 5.3' ENE.

13" (1/28/84): faint, small.  Located 4.4' WNW of NGC 1275 in the core of AGC 426.