NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
(This is a very very beta version)
NGC1446
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:45:57.5
Declination: -4:6:42
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dreyer
Year of discovery: 1877
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, f II 597
Sub-type: *
Corwin's Notes
=====
NGC 1446. This is probably a star roughly 2 arcmin south of Tempel's
position. He says of it, "... follows N1441 by 16 seconds [and is] +3/4
arcmin" (a crude translation of "... und folgt 16 seconds auf [GC] 772
+3/4'.") If the plus sign is switched to a minus sign, the star I've included
in the table is Tempel's object.
He has another nova here that is certainly a star. See NGC 1443 for that.
-----
While Dreyer credits his own observation of this object in the NGC, the galaxy
that he actually saw is NGC 1451. His attribution "Dreyer (R)" in the "Other
Observers" column should be moved to that object.