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NGC1458

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 3:45:2.9
Declination: -18:15:59
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 11.6

Historic Information


Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS, R, planetary? neb?
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 1458 is probably identical with NGC 1440 = NGC 1442 (and probably NGC 1430 as well; see the other three numbers for those stories). This is one of Leavenworth's Leander McCormick discoveries with an RA that is about 2 minutes of time too large. When that is corrected, his observation falls on NGC 1440, with his description ("m = 13.0, D = 0.3', R; [planetary]; neb?") more or less matching the bright inner part of the galaxy. This is not a certain identification, though. There is no sketch, and Leavenworth did not mention any nearby stars which we could use to verify the identity. Nevertheless, I'm fairly confident of the match, so use colons in the position table rather than question marks.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1458 See observing notes for NGC 1440.