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NGC8
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:8:45.3
Declination: +23:50:19
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Struve O.
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 15.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, N in n end
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 8 is a double star about 3 arcmin northwest of NGC 9. Both objects were
found by Otto Sturve in September 1865, NGC 9 on the 27th, and NGC 8 on the
29th. Struve's relative positions for the two are good, though his absolute
positions are -12 sec and -2 arcmin off. His measurement of the 10th mag star
about 6 arcmin east-southeast of NGC 9, however, clearly identifies the two
objects he saw.