In my seemingly endless trawl for a new comet I thought I would whip over and make sure C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) was still afloat. You'll be pleased to know it is!
The purpose of my post is not to show the Deep Skyers a comet, but to ask if anyone knows the identity of the apparent globular cluster that is seen at about 2 o'clock to the comet in the image.
The coords of the object are: 00:03:57; -73:28:27
I have attached 2 Skyview images at 1 degree and 9 arc minutes field of view.
It is not an NGC or IC object, it is not seen on Sky Safari Pro or Skytools 3 Pro.
Wikisky tried telling me it was NGC104 aka 47 Tuc. Hmmmmmm
I am thinking it is NGC 362, but it's coords are 01:03 / -71° and the SMC SHOULD be visible. (47 Tuc's are 00:24 / -72° which is a little closer to your coords)
Darn! I was going to make my own catalogue entry! THe funny thing is that it is not a particularly faint globular which makes it puzzling why it is not on the popular plate solvers or planetarium programs.
CdC lets you add more catalogs than you would ever want to know about:
Information from catalog: Bica
Catalogue of extended objects in Magellanic Clouds
Lindsay 1
Alt1: ESO28SC8
Dimension: 4.6 x 4.6 '
Description: Globular Cluster
Coordinates: Apparent
Apparent RA: 00h04m 40.5s DE:-73°23' 13"
Mean of the date RA: 00h04m 37.9s DE:-73°23' 25"
Mean J2000 RA: 00h03m 54.0s DE:-73°28' 19"
