NGC 7155
DSS image of NGC 7155
Overlaid DSS image of NGC 7155, 30' x 30' with north at top and west to the right

Aladin viewer for the region around NGC 7155
h 3899, GC 4717, IC 5143, ESO 237-16, PGC 67663, Gaia DR3 6559181218733473664

Type  Galaxy
Magnitude  11.83
Size  1.237' x 0.767' @ 90°
Right Ascension  21h 56' 9.6"  (2000)
Declination  49° 31' 19" S
Constellation  Indus
Description  pB, S, lE, mbM
Classification  SBO
Observing Notes

Andrew Cooper
Oct 7, 2023    Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Small, faint, round with a stellar core, at the center of an east-west 15' arc of 11th to 12th magnitude stars

Harold Corwin

IC 5143 = NGC 7155. This is one of the most southerly of the nebulae found by Lewis Swift. This may account for the large error in declination (25 arcmin), though the error may simply be a 30 arcmin circle reading error, combined with the usual uncertainty that we find in Swift's late positions. The declination, by the way, has the same value in all four lists in which Swift published this object (MN 58, 18, 1897; PASP 9, 224, 1897; Pop. Astron. 5, 427, 1897; and AN 147, 209, 1898 = No. 3517).

In any case, the identity with NGC 7155 is secured by Swift's note about the field stars: "... in line with 2 9m sts sf; 7m * sf." The three stars are there. ESO's suggested galaxy is much too faint, and though SGC's double star is considerably brighter and nearer Swift's nominal position, there are no bright stars to the southeast.
IC Notes by Harold Corwin
Other Data Sources for NGC 7155
Nearby objects for NGC 7155
5 objects found within 120'
IC 5152 NGC 7144 NGC 7145
NGC 7151 NGC 7169
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NGC 7155