NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 1317 is also NGC 1318. Curiously, the position for this galaxy is virtually the same in Schmidt's Fornax Cluster list (AN 88, 138, 1876) as it is in JH's catalogues, yet Schmidt calls it a new nebula. Schmidt complains that there are not very many reference stars in the declination zone of the Cluster, so he has instead referred his positions to those of JH's nebulae in the area. Thus, I am not surprised to see that Schmidt's position for NGC 1316 (given with JH's number h2527) is nearly identical to JH's. When I first went through Schmidt's list (in the mid-1970s at ROE while preparing SGC), I was, however, surprised to see that Schmidt did not notice that the first of his "Faint new" nebulae is at JH's position for N1317 (h2529). Glen Cozens has pointed out (in an email sent in September 2006), though, that the CGH observations have the NPD for h2529 20 degrees in error. JH himself caught this while proofreading his monograph, and has the error corrected in the errata at the end of the volume. The NPD is carried correctly over into the GC and the NGC. Since Schmidt does not use GC numbers in his list, only JH's numbers, we can be pretty sure that he had the CGH in front of him when he prepared his paper. So, without checking the errata, he thought h2529 was 20 degrees north of its true position. There are several other errors in Schmidt's list of stars and galaxies, suggesting that he threw it together quickly without checking JH's CGH observations very carefully. We can be sure about this identity. It was first noted (to my knowledge) by the de Vaucouleurs in RC1. Knox Shaw at Helwan in a 1912 list, and Carlson in her 1940 list of NGC corrections, both simply noted N1318 as not found, but did not suggest the identity.

===== NGC 1317 17.5" (11/26/94): moderately bright, fairly small, 1.2' diameter, even concentration to a small bright core and stellar nucleus. Forms a bright pair with NGC 1316 6.3' S. Located at the southwest end of the Fornax I cluster. 8" (10/13/81): faint, small, bright core. Forms a pair with NGC 1316 7' S.