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NGC122

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 0:27:38.3
Declination: -1:38:24
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 15.4

Historic Information


Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: 2vF neb 4'-5' np of * 8.5m
Sub-type: *

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 122 and NGC 123 are probably stars. Tempel published only the sparce descriptions; the NGC positions are apparently among those that he sent directly to Dreyer. There is certainly nothing at these positions except a faint star in the case of NGC 122 (which Bigourdan measured). Ironically, I think that this star may be the northeast of Tempel's "nebulae," so that it would be NGC 123 and not NGC 122. NGC 122 may be the equally faint star about an arcminute southwest of Bigourdan's star. See NGC 123 for more.