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NGC464
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:19:26.6
Declination: +34:57:21
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: S
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 464 is clearly just a double star (see the 2MASS J-band image, and the
SDSS g-band image), though I noted it earlier as (first) a double, then as a
triple. I should just leave well enough alone ...
Here is the historical note. Though credited to Tempel (in his fifth list of
observations of nebulae), it was actually found by the BD observers as they
swept the field. Tempel has only this to say about it: "Im Atlas vom
Argelander einen kleinen neuen Nebel verzeichnet in: 01 11 25, +34 12" [In
Argelander's Atlas, there is a small, new nebula plotted at ...]. Since the
BD was made with a 78-mm refractor, Argelander's observer could not have seen
the faint galaxy fingered by RNGC.