NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
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NGC85
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:21:25.5
Declination: +22:30:44
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 14.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Copeland
Year of discovery: 1873
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, cL, R
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 85. I admit to caving in to the inevitable on this one. There is no
problem with the NGC identification -- Copeland's offsets from NGC 83 are
accurate, and just as accurately pin down the galaxy he measured. Similarly,
Javelle's offsets from SAO 073902 are good and pin down IC 1546.
The "A" and "B" suffixes for NGC 85 come from MCG, and confuse the simplicity
of the history. I was tempted to ignore the suffixes altogether, but they
have already been copied into the literature. So, I have to note that "N85B"
is the same as IC 1546.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 85
18" (11/22/08): faint, very small, slightly elongated, ~18"x15". Forms a very close pair with IC 1546 = NGC 85B just 0.9' SE within the NGC 80 cluster. Situated between NGC 83 4.7' S and NGC 86 2.8' N.
17.5" (9/19/87): very faint, very small, slightly elongated. Forms a close pair with IC 1546 = NGC 85B 53" ESE and NGC 83 lies 5' S.
13" (9/29/84): extremely faint, very diffuse, small, almost round. Located 5' N of NGC 83.