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NGC7238
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 22:15:20.5
Declination: +22:31:10
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: pF, S, R, mbM, 4 st p
Sub-type: NF
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 7238 is lost. Swift describes it as "pF, S, R, mbM; 4 sts in form of a
square nr p." There is nothing like this for several degrees around his
position on the POSS1 prints (I've also looked at larger distances: up to one
hour east and west, and up to 10 degrees north and south; also 20 degrees
north and south). There is little systematic offset in the positions of the
other objects Swift found the same night, though several have large RA errors
(10 or 20 seconds of time), and one (NGC 716 = IC 1743) has a large
declination error (40 arcminutes).
So, it's still lost.