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Type: galaxy, S
Mag: B=14.8, V=?
Size: 1.148′ x 0.602′
PA: 15°
IC 1028, assuming that the identification (first suggested by CGCG) is correct, is well off its nominal position: +45 seconds in RA and +10.7 arcmin in declination. There is a "F * close nf", but I would hardly describe the galaxy as "pB, S, R". "Small" it is, but it is faint and elongated. I've saved the identity since the galaxy is the only one in the area that comes even close to fitting both Swift's position and description.
For more about Swift's unfortunate night -- one among many -- of 1 September 1888, see IC 895.
Lacaille's catalogue
The Messier objects
Dunlop's catalogue
The Bennett objects
The Caldwell list
Named DSOs
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