The galaxy you see here has an identity crisis. Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered it in 1826, and John Dreyer included it as the 1,291st entry in his New General Catalogue. Ten years after Dunlop’s sighting, English astronomer John Herschel stumbled across the same object and, not knowing of Dunlop’s observation, christened it NGC 1269.Continue reading “By any other name: NGC 1269 or NGC 1291?”
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