Andrew Cooper
Aug 28, 2011    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Bright, round 5' halo with a bright core, NGC1400 visible 12' southwest

Andrew Cooper
Dec 11, 2004    Sentinel, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Nice pair with NGC1400, two circular galaxies with even halos and obvious stellar cores, NGC1407 is the brighter of these galactic twins

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

Nebula, fainter p. [NGC1400]

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 7, 1837    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A milky-white nebula, between the two northern reaches of the River; it is pale, but distinct, round, and bright in the centre. It lies nearly midway between and preceding two distant stars, sf and nf, the three forming an obtuse-angled triangle; there are only a few glimpse stars besides in the field.

Now there is, on close gazing, such strong internal evidence of the nebula's being inconceivably beyond those specks of light, that, small as it appears, the mind is lost in considering its probable magnitude and distance.

This object was registered by ♅. in October, 1785, and I differentiated it with γ¹ Eridani; to fish it up, run an imaginary line from the coarse double star Keid (40 Eridani) through γ, and extend it exactly as far again as the distance between those two points.

― A Cycle of Celestial Objects Vol II, The Bedford Catalogue, William Henry Smyth, 1844

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