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ASTRO: NGC 7331 with galaxies ID'ed
This is one of the most confusing areas of the sky if you are interested in
what we humans name things. Many of the NGC objects in this area are not galaxies at all, but just double stars picked up by Temple in the 19th Century. The RNGC and other listings have compounded the errors over the years. The NGC-IC Project (http://www.ngcic.org/) has tried to figure this all out by referring to the original sources but Temple is very vague. The ID's for the "stars"are just a current best guess. The "real" galaxies are in bold-black, while the "stars" in the NGC are gray-underline in the attached image. The little 18+ mag galaxy is sometimes listed as on of these NGC objects, but I know I can't see 18.5 mag in a 9 inch telescope - in fact I can't see that galaxy in a 20 inch. The MGC galaxy could just possibly be one, but the location is wrong. George N |
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