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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
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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
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NGC 1458
See observing notes for NGC 1440.