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| Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Image Information for NGC 1055 | |||
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| DSS Acknowledgement , DSS Copyright Notice | DSS Image Generation: 1st Generation DSS Image | ||
| Image Center (2000): 02h 41m 45.4s; +00º 26' 32" | Image File Name: n1055.jpg | ||
| Image Size (arcminutes): 10' x 10' | Image Size (pixels): 353 x 353 | ||
| Original NGC Catalogue Data for NGC 1055 | |||
| General Catalogue Designation: 591 | William Herschel Designation: I 1 = II 6 | ||
| John Herschel Designation: 258 | Other Observers: ... | ||
| Right Ascension (Equinox 1860): 02h 34m 33s | Annual RA Precession (Equinox 1880): +3.07s | ||
| North Polar Declination (Equinox 1860): 90° 9.5' | Annual DEC Precession (Equinox 1880): -15.6" | ||
| Summary Description: pF, cL, iE 80°, bM, * 11 n 1' | |||
| Notes: * | Comments: … | ||
| Discovered by: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822) | Year of Discovery: 1783 | ||
| Telescope Aperture (Inches): 18.7 | Telescope Type: Reflector | ||
| Understanding the 'Summary Description': Summary Description Abbreviations List | |||
| Contemporary/Current Data for NGC 1055 | |||
| Right Ascension (2000): 02h 41m 45.4s | Declination (2000): +00º 26' 32" | ||
| Object Type: Galaxy | Object Classification: Sb II-III | ||
| Constellation: Cetus | Position Angle: 105 ° | ||
| Visual Magnitude: 10.9 | Surface Brightness: 14.0 | ||
| Blue Magnitude: 11.5 | Object Size: 7.6'X2.7' | ||
| Also Cataloged As: | UGC 2173, MCG+00-07-081, H I-1, H II-6, h 258, GC 591, CGCG 388.095, PGC 10208 | ||
| Catalogue Notes: Member of NGC 1068 group. | |||
| Book / Chart References for NGC 1055 | |||
| Luginbuhl & Skiff (Page): 76 | Burnham's (Volume : Page): ------ | ||
| Uranometria 2000: 220 | Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas: C-55 | ||
| Microsky: 591 | GSC Small Region Number: 47 | ||
| POSS Blue Plate #: 1283 | POSS Red Plate #: 1283 | ||
| Database Update Level: 2 (Complete) | |||
| Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1055 | |||
NGC 1055 = UGC 02173 = MCG +00-07-081 = CGCG 388-095 = PGC 10208 02 41 45.2 +00 26 31 V = 10.6; Size 7.6x2.7; SB = 13.7; PA = 105d 17.5" (11/14/87): fairly bright, fairly large, very elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, broadly concentrated halo. A mag 11 star is just off the NW flank 1.2' from the center. Located 7' SE of mag 6.8 SAO 110689 and 7' SW of mag 7.8 SAO 110692. Member of the M77 group. 13" (9/3/83): fairly faint, elongated WNW-ESE. A mag 12 star is 1' N. 8" (11/8/80): faint, elongated. Located 30' NNW of M77. | |||
| Data Sources Used to research NGC 1055 | |||
| [NGC] New General Catalogue / [IC] Index Catalogue (Dreyer - 1888, 1895, 1908) [OHCDSO] Observing Handbook and Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (Luginbuhl & Skiff - 1990) [GD-NGCDDB] NGC Discoverer's Database (DeLange - 1987 to 2006) [UGC] Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies (Nilson - 1973) [NGCT] The Nearby Galaxies Catalog (Tully) [CGCG] Catalog of Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies (Zwicky - 1968) [HC-PPL] NGC/IC Accurate Positions List Database (Corwin - 1996 thru 2006) [RE-AZDB] The Arizona Database®, V15.5 (Erdmann - 1987 thru 2006) [SG-NGCO] NGC/IC Observations Database (Gottlieb - 1998 thru 2006) [MCG] Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al - 1962 thru 1968) [DSS] Digitized Sky Survey - 1st (102 CD-ROM) and 2nd (Web Site) Generation (STScI - 1994) [NED] NASA's Extragalactic Database (NED) located at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ | |||
| Additional Notes | |||
| • 1st generation images were generated from the 102 CD-ROM version of the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) • 2nd generation images were generated at the DSS web site located at http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dsswin • Luginbuhl & Skiff page numbers are from 'Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects' by Christian B. Luginbuhl and Brian A. Skiff, produced by Cambridge University Press • Burnham's refers to 'Burnham's Celestial Handbook' in three volumes produced by Dover Publications, Inc. • Uranometria 2000 chart numbers are for those printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Lovi, and are not for the most recent printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Remaklus in which the charts were re-numbered, all of which were and/or are produced by Willmann-Bell, Inc. • The Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas is by D. Herald and P. Bobroff of Canberra, Australia and is produced by HB2000 Publications • Microsky® is the microfiche rendition of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) produced by Deen Publications (P.O. Box 867088; Plano Texas 75086) • POSS refers to the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey produced by The National Geographic Society in conjunction with The California Institute of Technology • All DSS image annotation was performed by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr., and is ©Copyright 1996 through 2008 by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. - All rights reserved • All product names, trademarks, and copyrights are the property of their respective owners • Contemporary/Current Data for this object was hand collected and entered from the data sources listed in the "Data Sources Used" section of this table above.- Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. | |||
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