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Old 11-08-2008, 07:05 AM
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Galaxies NGC 1316 & NGC 1317

This image was taken by Daniel Verschatse of Chile.
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/ngc1316.htm
I haven't seen any images of these two galaxies on IIS.

Dunlop 548 (N1316) is "A rather bright round nebula, about 1.5' diameter, gradually condensed to the centre" and Dunlop 547 (N1317) is "A small faint round nebula, about 15" diameter" according to Dunlop.
NGC 1316 is an easy object in a 50mm finder. John Herschel did not include NGC 1317 in his catalogue.

NGC 1317 was discovered on the last night that Dunlop catalogued new objects, 24/11/1826. He also found NGC 1350 that night.
James Dunlop started his catalogue of 629 objects on 27/4/1826 and finished it less than 7 months later.

Charles Messier took much longer to make his catalogue, he started on 21/8/1758 and finished more than 22 years later on 24/3/1781.
http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/E/Xt...y/dis-tab.html
Messier used an 8" and Dunlop a 9" reflector.

Last edited by glenc; 11-08-2008 at 09:50 AM.
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