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Originally Posted by glenc
Thanks Steven, you are the first to post an image of those two galaxies that I know of.
James Dunlop saw NGC 1553 but thought that NGC 1549 was a star.
He wrote "A rather bright nebula [1553] about 1’ diameter, very faint at the margin, gradually bright to the centre: a small star north, and another south, both involved in the margin of the nebula. A group of very small stars [including 1549] north"
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It's not surprising there are not too many images of this pair. Most ellipticals are bland objects and not worth imaging.
Regards
Steven