Obituary: MNRAS 76, 284 (1916); Obs. 38, 177 (1915); Proc. Roy. Soc. 92, XVI (1915), AN 200, 185 (1915)

Auwers found 2 NGC-objects; only one was new: NGC 6503 (#37 in his list of new nebulae, see below), found when he was still a pupil in Göttingen, owning a 2.6" Fraunhofer refractor. He showed it to his friend Winnecke, studying at Göttingen University (see Winnecke's report in AN 45, 247 (1857)). The other object, NGC 4402 (#30), a galaxy in Virgo, was found with the 6.2" Merz heliometer at Königsberg Observatory, installed in 1829. The discoverer is J. Stoney (Birr Castle). Auwers compiled all new nebulae know up to 1862 in his work William Herschel's Verzeichnisse von Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen (Königsberg 1862): Historic Au

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Aus einem Schreiben des Herrn Dr. Auwers

AN [1391] 58, 361-364 (1862)

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William Herschel's Verzeichnisse von Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen

Königsberg 1862