NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

(This is a very very beta version)

NGC814

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 2:10:37.6
Declination: -15:46:24
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, R, gbM
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

=====

NGC 814 and 815.  These two objects, found by Ormond Stone at Leander 
McCormick in 1886, have been misidentified or given up as lost by nearly
everyone who has tried to find them.  However, Stone's sketch, made a few days 
after their discovery, points to the correct objects a full eight minutes of 
time east of the recorded (and published) positions.  The star field is 
unmistakeable, and the objects match Stone's descriptions.

Steve's Notes

=====

NGC 814

17.5" (10/25/97): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, 1.0'x0.5', broad concentration.  Located close NE of a mag 12 star [0.9' from center].  At moments appears to have a faint stellar nucleus.  Forms a close pair with extremely difficult NGC 815 2.4' S.  Due to a poor position by Stone, these objects are misidentified in RNGC.