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NGC 1427A is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. (Its) distance modulus has been estimated using the globular cluster luminosity function to be 31.01 ± 0.21 which is about 52 Mly. It is the brightest dwarf irregular member of the Fornax cluster and is in the foreground of the cluster’s central galaxy NGC 1399.

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