[Chaos-l] 989. No, the other 989...

[Terry Crook]

Is there an NGC 405?

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W

On 2/8/2013 12:28 PM, Jon Stewart-Taylor wrote:
>
> On a whim, i looked up the NGC object corresponding to our address.
>
> NGC 989 is a 15th magnitude galaxy located at the bottom of Cetus, and 
> is so unexciting that it's not even plotted on Sky Atlas 2000.  Kinda 
> like our actual house, not very big, and located at the south end of 
> nothing:
>
>   http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?989
>
> http://dso-browser.com/dso/info/NGC/989?lat_deg=35&lat_min=57&lat_sec=7&lat_hem=N&month=2&day=8&year=2013&timezone=-5&lon_deg=79&lon_min=1&lon_sec=39&lon_hem=W&min_alt=0&hour=0
>
>
> On the other hand, our former address (NGC 2412) appears to be a 
> single star in Canis Minor, and not a very exciting one either. It 
> doesn't even rate a mention in the SEDS NGC webpage.
>
> Does your address have an NGC object?  What is it?
>
> J.
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