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NGC1710
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:57:16.8
Declination: -15:17:20
Constellation: LEP
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, R, bMN, * 13 inv
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1710 = IC 2108, which see. Once again, a poor position from the early
lists out of Leander McCormick led to enough confusion for Bigourdan that the
galaxy received two numbers in Dreyer's catalogues. However, Bigourdan
eventually caught his mistake (after seeing the list of micrometrically
measured nebulae from Leander McCormick), and made the identity himself in his
own big table of micrometric measurements. The object which he initially
measured as N1710 is nothing more than a faint star.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1710
18" (2/5/11): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 SSW-NNE, well concentrated with a very small bright core. A mag 11 star is 1.2' SE of center. Located 13' NE of mag 7.6 HD 31585 and 45' SW of R Leporus.
17.5" (12/3/88): fairly faint, small, round, weak concentration. A mag 12 star is off the SE edge 1.2' from center. Hind's Variable Star lies 45' NE.