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This interesting scene contains two "firsts": NGC 1 and IC 1, the first entries in two famous catalogues of deep-sky objects (the New General Catalogue and the Index Catalogue). NGC 1 is the spiral galaxy near the right edge of the image while IC 1 is the double star near he center of the image. Why would a double star be in the Index Catalogue? Because its discoverer thought, incorrectly, that one of the two stars has some associated nebulosity.

Below NGC 1 at the right is NGC 2. The spiral galaxy at the bottom of the picture is UGC 69. The largest galaxy in the image, to the left of center, is NGC 16. The spiral in the upper left is NGC 22. The tiny irregular blue galaxy above NGC 16 is PGC 655.