Steve has some really good notes on this one on the NGC / IC site.
Apparently it is listed as 4241 in modern catalogs due to an observing error
by Jonathan Hershel. It's an interesting read.. check out the site...
RO
----- Original Message -----
From: <RichardN22@aol.com>
To: <sf-bay-tac@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:07 PM
Subject: [TAC] NGC 4223
> HI,
>
> I'm on the last leg of finishing the Herschel II list. I've got about 25
> galaxies left in Virgo. Looking over my notes I saw something funny with
> NGC
> 4223, it is listed as DUP. Don't know what that means unless it is a
> duplicate of some kind. Looking on the web I see there was some
> discrepancy on
> Herschel's part as well. Some also list it as IC 3102 which show as NGC
> 4241 on
> Megastar. Does anyone have a clue what's going on, and does anyone have
> an
> answer as to what this means to the HII observing list?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
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