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NGC28
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:10:25.2
Declination: -56:59:20
Constellation: PHE
Visual Magnitude: 13.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, p of 2
Sub-type: E1
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 28 and NGC 31. Found by John Herschel during his stay at Cape Town in the
mid-1830's, the identifications of these two galaxies are unequivocal. This
has not prevented PGC from equivocating: it claims that the SGC
identifications are wrong. Balderdash and bull feathers!
Unfortunately, ESO missed the galaxies (and NGC 37 as well), so that N28 is
not even in ESO. ESO 149-G020 is NGC 31, and ESO 149-G022 is NGC 37. All
this is probably why the PGC folks were misled. The PGC error also crept over
into RC3; the galaxy identified there as NGC 28 is actually NGC 31.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 28
30" (11/4/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): moderately bright, fairly small, irregularly round, 30"x25", fairly high surface brightness, steadily increases to a very small bright core and stellar nucleus. Located in the core of AGC 2731 with NGC 31 1.8' E, NGC 25 4' SW and PGC 394784 2.4' SSE.