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NGC1197
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:6:14.1
Declination: +44:3:40
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: pF, pS, cE, sev vF st nr
Sub-type: NF
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1197. Well, I can't find this one, either. There is nothing at Swift's
position, and his description -- "pF, cE, pS; sev vF sts nr" -- could fit
any of a dozen galaxies within a few degrees in any direction. He apparently
found only one other galaxy on the same night (NGC 1171), and that is close to
his nominal position. So, searching for a systematic offset won't help.
A search of the surrounding POSS1 fields turns up no digit errors in the ten's
places of RA and Dec that would nail an appropriate object. So, this object
may well be lost. Wolfgang's identification, by the way, is a star about an
arcminute west of Swift's position. Swift's description -- particularly "cE"
-- pretty well rules out this ID.