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NGC1457
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:44:31.3
Declination: -44:38:45
Constellation: HOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: pF, pL, eE 42°, vgpmbM
Sub-type: Sc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1457 = NGC 1448. JH has only one observation of NGC 1448; its RA is
exactly 50 seconds in error. He has three accordant observations of NGC 1457
at the correct position, yet modern observers -- following Shapley-Ames --
have used the number 1448 for the galaxy. Strange people, astronomers.
The identity was first suggested by DeLisle Stewart in the big list of new
nebulae which he found on Harvard plates in the 1890's and early 1900's.
There, he noted that N1448 was "Not seen, error for 1457 which is
identified." In spite of this correction coming from a paper which they must
have known, Shapley and Ames chose to use the number 1448 rather than 1457.
Strange people, cataloguers ...
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1457
See observing notes for NGC 1448.