Good words to observe by, but I had to chuckle about your comment regarding 2MASS 02224186+4222417 (one of the difficult companions of NGC 891). Howard, Jimi and I spent some time observing NGC 253...
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Good words to observe by, but I had to chuckle about your comment regarding 2MASS 02224186+4222417 (one of the difficult companions of NGC 891). Howard, Jimi and I spent some time observing NGC 253...
Uwe, the magnitude certainly may be brighter - as you mentioned, NOMAD gives Vmag = 16.7.
The earliest magnitude I could find is the 1993 "Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects",...