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NGC372
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:6:44.6
Declination: +32:25:45
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dreyer
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: Stellar, mbM, r
Sub-type: *3
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 372. This is a triple star west of the NGC 383 galaxy group. It was
found the night of 12 Dec 1876 by Lord Rosse or his observing assistant at
the time (Dreyer). The measured PA and distance from a star near the middle
of the galaxy group unambiguously identifies the object, as does the note in
its description about another 12th magnitude star at PA 166.5 deg with a
distance of 74.0 arcsec. The description itself is telling: "The last nova
looks at first sight like a hazy *, the higher power seems to resolve it, at
all events sev. luminous points were seen."
The southwestern two of the stars may also be d'Arrest's object (NGC 370,
which see); if so, he's been rather careless about it.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 372
18" (11/18/06): faint triple star resolved at 280x. The components form a very small equilateral triangle 1' N of a mag 12 star with the components ~10" apart. The brightest component of the triple is at the north vertex and the other two are mag 15-15.5. NGC 370 may also refer to this multiple star.