NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 1464 = NGC 1471. Once again, the Leander McCormick RA from Leavenworth is about 2 minutes of time too large. But Leavenworth has left us a sketch that accurately portrays the galaxy and three of the stars nearby. In particular, he has the size (which he simply records as "vS") right, and his position angle of 45 degrees is correct as well. Swift's position is closer to the modern position, but his description is a bit peculiar when he claims "... forms equilatoral [sic] triangle with 2 sts." It does form a triangle with two nearby stars -- the two brighter ones shown in Leavenworth's sketch, in fact -- but the triangle is far from equilateral. In spite of this, I do not doubt that this is the galaxy which Swift saw -- his position is too close and there are no other nearby galaxies which could be his object. So the identity, at least in my mind, is secure.

===== NGC 1464 18" (11/22/03): faint, small, round, 40"x35", fairly low even surface brightness with just a weak concentration. A mag 12.5 star lies 1.9' SSE. Located 16' NE of mag 8.3 SAO 149206.