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Old 13-07-2009, 08:00 AM
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Pioneers
These five men found most of the NGC and IC objects in the far southern sky.
Nicolas Lacaille 1751-1752 http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...s/lacaille.htm
James Dunlop in 1826 http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...ons/dunlop.htm
John Herschel 1834-1838 http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...herschel_j.htm
DeLisle Stewart 1898-1901 http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...ns/stewart.htm
Royal Frost 1903-1904 http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...sons/frost.htm
Stewart and Frost used photography to find IC objects. Here are their descriptions.
http://www.ngcicproject.org/Historic...94_P_85A5E.pdf
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