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NGC1671

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 4:49:33.8
Declination: +0:15:12
Constellation: ORI
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information


Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational


Summary description: pF, pS, R
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 1671 may refer to the same galaxy as IC 395. Swift's description ("pF, pS, R, pB * nr sp") matches I395 (a later discovery also by Swift) pretty well, but the position is over a degree off in declination, and 43 seconds of time off. None of the other objects found by Swift on the same night (2 October 1886) have position errors anywhere nearly that large, and there is no suggestion of systematic offsets in either coordinate among the other objects. So, this is probably another lost object, though the I395 connection is not totally outrageous.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1671 See observing notes for IC 395.