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Sunday night 30 April 1826
Sunday night 30 April 1826
Astronomical twilight ended at 18:40 on Sunday night at Parramatta and the 34% sunlit Moon rose at 1am on 1/5. Dunlop catalogued 8 new objects that night and revisited 6 that he had seen on previous nights.
The 8 new objects were
At 20:03 NGC 3372 the eta Carinae nebula that Lacaille found in 1751
At 20:14 Collinder 236 an OC
At 21:07 NGC 3960 an OC
At 21:22 NGC 4103 an OC
At 21:39 NGC 4349 an OC
At 21:40 NGC 4372 a faint Gb, his longest description was for this globular cluster
At 21:43 NGC 4439 an OC
At 22:14 NGC 4852 an OC
The 6 that he revisited were
OC NGC 3532 a Lacaille cluster
OC IC 2714
OC Melotte 105
Gb NGC 4833 a Lacaille globular
Gx NGC 4945 and
Gx NGC 5128
His descriptions of NGC 3372 (D309) and NGC 4372 (D67) are attached.
Dunlop’s drawing of eta Carinae is also attached, Fig 14.
His catalogue was arranged by south polar distance from south to north (SPD)
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