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NGC1594
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:30:51.5
Declination: -5:47:52
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, pS
Sub-type: SBbc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1594 = IC 2075, which see for the story. Briefly, Swift's RA is off by
17 seconds of time (see also NGC 1677 = NGC 1659 for other interesting tidbits
about the nebulae Swift found this night of 22 October 1886). This misled
Bigourdan into thinking he had found a new nebula. Howe had corrected the RA
for Swift's object, and Dreyer put the correction into an IC2 Note. However,
Dreyer did not catch the identity with IC 2075 even though its position is
only 30 arcsec off Howe's corrected place for N1594.
This also had an impact on IC 2080 (which see) which shares the same RA error
as NGC 1594.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1594
17.5" (2/11/96): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 E-W, 1.2'x0.8'. Forms the east vertex of a near equilateral triangle with two mag 13/13.5 stars 2.0' NW and 2.3' WSW. A mag 14.5 star is just off the preceding edge 39" from center. Fairly smooth surface brightness except for a nearly stellar nucleus.