Ann chortled
Can't resist posting a picture of NGC 1666, the Great Fire of London galaxy, commemorating the slightly fiendish year of 1666. (Well, take away the "1" from 1666, and what have you got?)
And look what I've found - linking Godiva's Galaxy and the Fiendish Fire Galaxy!
In
my researching, I only found the 1666 Great Fire of London as having a boring fuzzy. Not having found the FABULOUS Fiendish Foto that Ann Found!
NGC 1666 (= PGC 16057)
Discovered (Nov 1, 1886) by Lewis Swift (5-62)
A 13th-magnitude lenticular galaxy (type SB0/a) in Eridanus (RA 04 48 32.8, Dec -06 34 10)
Apparent size 1.4 by 1.1 arcmin.
As does
1665 - (The Great Plague of London)
Even though it had the cachet of being discovered by William Herschel.
NGC 1665 (= PGC 16044)
Discovered (Oct 5, 1785) by William Herschel
A 13th-magnitude lenticular galaxy (type S0) in Eridanus (RA 04 48 17.0, Dec -05 25 38)
Apparent size 1.8 by 1.1 arcmin.
However, the next year has a superior galaxy, which was discovered Twice! And has TWO NGC designations. It's also rather pretty.
NGC 1667 (= NGC 1689 = PGC 16062)
Discovered (Dec 13, 1884) by Édouard Stephan (13-26) (and later listed as NGC 1667)
and THEN AGAIN
Discovered (Oct 22, 1886) by Lewis Swift (and later listed as NGC 1689)
A 12th-magnitude spiral galaxy (type SBc) in Eridanus (RA 04 48 37.0, Dec -06 19 13)
Apparent size 1.4 by 1.0 arcmin.
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In the news for1667
February – The first theatre in Scandinavia, opens in Lejonkulan and Bollhuset in Stockholm, Sweden.
October - . Brooklyn is chartered under the name Brueckelen by Mathias Nicolls, Governor of New Netherlands.
I had an idea that important dates don't yield interesting astronomical objects... But that
interesting galaxies lead one to learning about Swedish history!
But Ann's discovery of the Fiendish Fire Galaxy puts this tentative hypothesis in question.
Margarita
Edited because image link won't work