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Old 25-01-2013, 07:58 PM
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Ngc 1261=ngc 1269

Caught this interesting galaxy at the last new moon. It is catalogued as both NGC 1291 and NGC 1269 due to an error by John Herschel. It really needs much more exposure. I had to crank up the noise reduction quite a bit to make it look reasonable
http://www.astrobin.com/30696/
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