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Old 23-02-2023, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassnut View Post
Oh OK. When I say near NGC1848, thats where I started the random slew, it could have been a largeish slew. Perhaps ignor the NGC1848 reference.
I plate solved the image in astrometry.net and it came up with the coordinates I and Barry posted convincingly. astrometry.net also showed an image of another plate solve attempt, it was the same.
Im wondering if it does have a designation but was missed in one catalog and every other publication just copied data from it.
The object does show up in a SIMBAD search of your co-ordinates (attached)

When I did the search however, it returned 900 objects in a 1/4 degree
space.

As to which one it was....I have no idea.
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