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NGC1176
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:4:34.8
Declination: +42:23:38
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Bigourdan
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 12.4
Observational
Summary description: * 13 in vF neb
Sub-type: *
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1176, 1178, and 1183 are all stars in the vicinity of NGC 1175.
Bigourdan's published north polar distances are all 1 deg too large, but he
has correctly identified his comparison stars. Re-reducing his positions puts
them directly on top of faint stars in the field.
Another object found at the same time (N1173, which see) is apparently lost,
or is the victim of a misidentified comparison star. Also, Bigourdan had
trouble seeing N1175's one real companion galaxy, NGC 1177 = IC 281. Even
though his measurements of N1175 itself are good, this was obviously not a
well-seen field for him.