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===== NGC 7140 = NGC 7141. JH found this object twice, once on 4 Oct 1834 and again the following night. But his positions differed by just about a degree. When he wrote up the observations for publication in CGH, he had this to say (in square brackets and italics, meaning that he was at Collingwood, so could not go out to the telescope to resolve the question): N.B. -- It is not impossible that this [NGC 7141] and the nebula immediately preceding [in Sweep] 499 are identical, one or other being mistaken 1 degree in PD. Still, as both observations are clearly written in MS., and, as the difference of PD even then is rather considerable, (1 arcmin 28 arcsec) I have thought it necessary to enter them separately. For JH, that was it. The two remained separated in GC without even a note. But for NGC, Dreyer adds this to the description for NGC 7141: "(? = h3892)". Since there is nothing at the position of NGC 7140, it's clear that JH's two observations were indeed of the same object.

===== NGC 7140 See observing notes for NGC 7141.