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NGC162
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:36:9.2
Declination: +23:57:44
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 15.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, stellar, h 39 sp
Sub-type: *
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 162 is a star about 75 arcsec northeast of NGC 160. It was initially
found and measured by Schultz at Uppsala (he calls it "G.C. 80" in his tables
and notes), though Lord Rosse also noted it at least twice. In addition, the
star was thought to be nebulous on Heidelberg and Lick plates, though the Mt.
Wilson astronomers -- not finding a nebula at the place -- hypothesized that
N162 = N160. The small galaxy 2.7 arcminutes southeast of N160 has also been
mistaken for NGC 162, once by yrs trly. Live and learn.
Also see Dreyer's NGC note for N160. He had this all figured out in 1888.