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===== NGC 7234 = NGC 7235. N7234 was found by WH. Reducing his observation as given in Dreyer's 1912 Collected Papers gives a position considerably different from the one given in GC and NGC. Earlier, I wrote at this point, "Auwer's reduced position agrees with the correctly reduced one, so this must be an error in CH's reduction of her brother's data." In fact, that is only the RA part of the problem. The reduced position in CH's fair copy of the sweeps agrees very well in NPD with the correctly reduced position, but the RA is about 20 seconds off. The NPD mistake must rest with JH during his preparation of the GC. This idea is reinforced by JH's entry in his 1833 catalogue where he has his cluster as identical with his father's. It was not until his GC work that he separated the two objects. He has no notes explaining his decision to give the observations separate entries, so we can only speculate that he believed the (mistaken) position difference was large enough to warrant the two listings. In any event, there is only one cluster on the sky, and both father and son saw it. ----- In spite of that, AH have two separate objects here, making a 3.5-arcminute "cl?" out of eight stars at WH's incorrect position. I've not included this in the position table.

===== NGC 7234 See observing notes for NGC 7235.