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NGC1382
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:37:9.0
Declination: -35:11:44
Constellation: FOR
Visual Magnitude: 12.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Schmidt
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 6.2
Observational
Summary description: F
Sub-type: E/SB0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1382 is another of Julius Schmidt's discoveries in the Fornax Cluster. As
given in his table, his RA is about 40 seconds of time off a galaxy that
de Vaucouleurs (in his 1956 monograph on bright southern galaxies) called
"NGC 1380B". Carlson had already included N1382 in her 1940 list of NGC/IC
corrections, and deV noted that N1380B was the same galaxy. I think that he
was reluctant to adopt the identification because he did not have Schmidt's
list at hand, so could not check it himself.
Since there is no other reasonable candidate for NGC 1382, I adopted the
identity for SGC, and still think it is pretty solid.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1382
18" (12/17/11): fairly faint, moderately large, round, 0.8' diameter. Fairly low surface brightness with only a broad, mild concentration and no core or zones. NGC 1381 lies 9.6' SW.
13.1" (12/22/84): very faint, round, fairly small, very diffuse. On a line with NGC 1381 9.5' SW and NGC 1379 20' SW. Member of the Fornax I cluster.