NGC 2982 (09h 42.2m -44 02') Discovered by JH (h3184): "a cluster of about 20* 11m, and 2 of 10m, forming an oblong nearly in parallel; place of preceding *10m". His position is 09 42 16.5 -44 44 34 (2000) but there is no bright nearby on GSC. JH changed the dec 30' further N when he entered this object as GC 1910 (repeated by Dreyer in NGC) but this position does not correspond with any clustering. But an additional 10' N of the GC/NGC position is a group of brighter stars fitting h's description and his RA matches the SW member of a wide pair of mag 10 stars at the SE side of the group. ESO gives a position of 09 42 03 -44 00.8 (2000). Misprint in MCG equates M+05-28-059 = N2982. Listed as nonexistent in RNGC. It is also possble that this group corresponds with Ru 80 = OCL-770 = Lund 516 at the Lynga position 09 42.3 -44 02 (2000) but Skiff disagrees: "[Ru 80] is indeed a very small and much fainter cluster off to the east side of NGC 2982." Lynga does not give a separate listing for N2982. NGC 2999 (09H 40.3M -50 19') Discovered by JH (h3192) and possibly Dunlop (D 397). Described by h as "a small irreg cl of a long trianglular diverging figure; contains perhaps 50 stars 12...15m. Observed for 397, and place only rough. Possibly the same object with D 397 = N2972." Although there is a 5 tmin difference in h's rough RA for N2972, Archinal suggests N2972 = N2999. NGC 3283 (10h 31.2m -46 15') This is a "missing" object from JH's Cape Catalogue (h3271). His single observation reads "pF, S, R, gbM, 25". RA coarsely taken by an auxiliary star" and the given position is 10 32 47 (approximate), -46 15 14 (2000). JH also made a 10' error in declination (too far N) in GC which was copied into NGC. ESO could not find a suitable candidate (not found) and also listed as unverified in RNGC. Assuming the RA was very rough, I looked at ESO galaxies and found the likely candidate E263-G48 located at 10 31 11.5 -46 15 05 (J2000). This galaxy is 1.6 tmin preceding h's uncertain RA with a nearly perfect match in declination. It is also fairly bright (V = 11.5), so unlikely to have missed by JH in the sweep. |
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