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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

===== 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.