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NGC158
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:35:5.5
Declination: -8:20:42
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vS, nf II 3
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 158. Though this is 4 arcmin from the NGC position, this single star (not
a close double; see the next paragraph) is probably Tempel's object. It is
northeast of NGC 157, and is similar to many other of Tempel's stars that he
mistook as nebulous. I'm a bit more confident of this one than I am of NGC
156, which see.
Having looked at this again (August 2015), I no longer think that this is a
double star. The SDSS image -- the highest resolution image I've found online
-- is resolutely single when compared to other single stars nearby. The other
images I've looked at today are also single stars, so I've changed the
position table to reflect this. Sorry to have misled you all this time.