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NGC480
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:20:34.3
Declination: -9:52:49
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 15.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R, (neb ?)
Sub-type: Sa
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 480. The identification is not quite sure since there is no sketch of the
object and its field. Nevertheless, the faint galaxy I've assigned the number
to is not too far from Leavenworth's position, and matches his description.
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Note, too, that Leavenworth's RA is east of his RA for NGC 481 (which see), a
brighter galaxy about 45 arcminutes to the northeast. Even though his
relative declinations, sizes, and magnitudes are correct, his RAs are not.
Fortunately, Swift (and later Howe) picked up the brighter object, so it has a
good position. This does, however, switch the order of the two objects in the
NGC compared with the Leander McCormick list, a potential source of confusion.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 480
17.5" (10/4/97): extremely faint and small, round, ~10" diameter. This marginal object required averted vision and the GSC finder chart to glimpse at 280x. Located 8' E of mag 7 SAO 147742 and nearly at the midpoint of two mag 12 stars 3.7' SW and 3.3' NE. Listed as nonexistent in RNGC and this identification of a Leavenworth discovery is uncertain (see notes).