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NGC156
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:34:35.8
Declination: -8:20:22
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vS, np II 3
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 156 is probably the northern of the pair of stars, northwest of NGC 157,
that Wolfgang and I have pointed to in the past. Tempel has mistaken several
other single stars near galaxies as nebulous (see e.g. NGC 122/123, NGC 4315,
NGC 4322, NGC 4768/9), and this is probably another. We can't tell for sure,
though, as he has not measured this micrometrically, and his description is
scanty: "Very small". The NGC tells us all that Tempel did in his brief
note.
There is, of course, the possibility that his object refers to both stars, so
I've included that in the table, too.