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NGC728

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:55:1.5
Declination: +4:13:22
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1827
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: Suspected neb (d'A, not found)
Sub-type: *3

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 728 is probably the triple star about 1.5 arcmin north-northwest of JH's position. JH has only one observation of this object which he describes as "A suspected nebula." D'Arrest could not find this object, though he only looked for it once. On a night of relatively poor seeing, the three stars (with a maximum separation of about 20 arcsec, might appear nebulous. A glance at the Sky Survey suggests that N728 might be a reobservation of NGC 718, about 2 minutes west of JH's place (the declinations are the same to within the errors). However, JH first observed N718 in the same sweep (No. 95) in which he found N728. So, the two are unlikely to be the same.