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NGC1006
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:37:34.8
Declination: -11:1:31
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, pS, R, lbM
Sub-type: Sc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1006 = NGC 1010. Swift saw all three of the galaxies here. Curiously,
his RAs for the first two (NGC 1011 is the second) of the triplet are both 10
seconds of time too small, but the RA for the third galaxy (NGC 1017) is close
to being right (he saw them all on the same night).
Stephan picked up the first two of the galaxies, but not the third, while
Stone got all three and recognized that the first two were Stephan's. Swift
apparently did not have the GC supplement at hand, so did not realize that
Stephan had already seen the nebulae. Thus, he included all three as new in
his fifth list.
This led Dreyer astray, but -- again curiously -- only for NGC 1006. He
credited Swift for all three, but included a separate number only for Swift's
observation of NGC 1006. The other two he combined with Stephan's and Stone's
nebulae to get this field almost, but not quite, right.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1006
See observing notes for NGC 1010.