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NGC1396
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:38:6.5
Declination: -35:26:23
Constellation: FOR
Visual Magnitude: 13.8
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 1396. The galaxy chosen by me for SGC is the only reasonably match to the
original position by Schmidt in his short paper on the Fornax Cluster.
Unfortunately, Schmidt's table in that paper has several errors, some perhaps
typos, some perhaps observational. In any event, given the size of his
telescope, and the problems in his table, the SGC galaxy is as good a match to
Schmidt's observation as I can make.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1396
18" (12/17/11): extremely faint, small, slightly elongated, ~20" diameter, low surface brightness. Requires averted vision and no details visible. Located just 4.7' W of NGC 1399 (second brightest galaxy in the Fornax cluster).
18" (12/30/08): extremely faint, very small, slightly elongated, 20"x15". Required averted to glimpse though the observation may have been affected by clouds or contrails. Located 4.7' W of NGC 1399 in the Fornax I cluster.
Due to a poor position by Julius Schmidt (14' due south) and the faintness of this galaxy (discovered with a 6-inch refractor), the identification is uncertain.