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NGC446
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:16:3.7
Declination: +4:17:40
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 12.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: F, vS, stellar
Sub-type: SB0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 446 = IC 89. Found by Marth in 1864, this is one of his objects that he
"verified" -- that is, reobserved. Nevertheless, his RA (and therefore, the
NGC's) is just one minute of time off the true position. This is probably a
transcription or typographical error. The declination is within an arcminute
of being correct, however. IC 89 has a good micrometrically measured position
in IC1 from Javelle's first list.
RNGC has suggested that UGC 794 is NGC 446. That galaxy, though, is
considerably fainter than the real N446, and its position is off by odd
amounts from Marth's: 13 seconds of time, and 7 arcminutes. That identity is
therefore unlikely.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 446
17.5" (12/23/92): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 NW-SE, prominent sharp bright core with a nearly stellar nucleus. This galaxy is identified as IC 89 in UGC, CGCG and RC3. NGC 446 lies 19' WSW and NGC 462 is 30' ESE.