NGC 1350, Dun 591, JH 2545
Gxy in For, mag 10.7, size 5.2’, RA 3.519, dec -33.62
Distance 73.5 Mly, average of 2 measurements
James Dunlop found NGC 1317 and NGC 1350 on the night he finished observing for his catalogue, 24/11/1826.
He started his catalogue just 7 months earlier on 27/4/1826.
Messier took much longer to catalogue 103 objects; he started his catalogue in 1758 and completed it 23 years later in 1781.
NGC 1350 is only 2 degrees NNW of the sickle shaped Fornax galaxy cluster
http://picasaweb.google.com/dunlop18...28690730218434
See map b in post #15
Here is an image and descriptions of 1350 by Dunlop and John Herschel.
http://picasaweb.google.com/dunlop18...28647881832354
The image is from
www.wikisky.org
Hartung's description is here
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...page&q&f=false
There are currently no images of 1350 on IIS.
There is an APOD image
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap051006.html
The Fornax galaxy cluster is about 60 Mly away.
The attached wikisky.org image, with north at the top, is 3.8 by 3.8 degrees.
It shows NGC 1350 near the top and 1365 near the bottom.