Yep, NGC 3760 is a later duplicate observation of NGC 3301, which was discovered by William Herschel. The story of Copeland's discovery based on d'Arrest's mistake was first published in 1894. You...
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Yep, NGC 3760 is a later duplicate observation of NGC 3301, which was discovered by William Herschel. The story of Copeland's discovery based on d'Arrest's mistake was first published in 1894. You...
An interesting side note on the discovery of Copeland's Septet ---
Copeland found the group while searching in vain for Heinrich d'Arrest's GC 2464 = NGC 3760, which he assumed was in the general...