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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

===== 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.