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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
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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
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NGC 1671
See observing notes for IC 395.