* Astronomy

NGC 1288 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 196 million light years away in the constellation Fornax. In the nineteenth century, English astronomer John Herschel described it as "very faint, large, round, very gradually little brighter middle."
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Right Ascension 03^h 17^m 13.2^s, Declination -32° 34' 35"

The magnitude +12.0 almost face-on barred spiral galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape Town on the 19th November 1835.