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NGC1040
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:43:12.5
Declination: +41:30:1
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 12.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1871
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: F, S, bM
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1040 = NGC 1053. Here is a peculiar case where Lewis Swift's position is
closer to the galaxy than Edouard Stephan's! However, if Stephan's position
is made exactly one minute of time larger, then it agrees with the GSC
position to within 5 arcsec. Stephan apparently made a simple error in
subtracting the RA offset of the galaxy from the comparison star as the
position he lists for the star is correctly precessed from the BD. However --
another error -- he recorded the star's BD number as +40 677 in both
publications of his third list: the correct number is +40 577. We all have
bad days.
The identity with NGC 1053, by the way, was suggested by Reinmuth, and Swift's
position and description are good.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1040
See observing notes for NGC 1053.