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Originally Posted by Rob_K
My rough charts also had NGC1232 pencilled in Eridanus – why, I don’t know, coz SN has it marked at dimmer than mag 15 and utterly beyond my scope. But when I scanned the area I found a definite faint fuzzy in about the right spot, just a dim amorphous glow. This one’s pretty much on it’s own according to SN. However, I do know that I can’t see mag 15 galaxies, so it’s ridiculous – I would guess that what I saw was roughly mag 12 or so. Any ideas? Has SN got the wrong magnitude, or maybe it’s a bit of unnamed nebulosity? Edit: Yeah, it's mag 9.9! So showed in my scope as a little dimmer than I'd expect!
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Nice report, Rob.
Uranometria lists NGC 1232 as mag. 9.9, and NGC 1232A as mag. 14.6 - they seem to be superimposed over each other in the atlas.