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NGC743
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:58:37.0
Declination: +60:10:0
Constellation: CAS
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1829
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, not Ri, D * (h 1098)
Sub-type: II1p
Steve's Notes
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NGC 743
17.5" (11/26/94): bright, distinctive but scattered group in a triangular outline. Consists of two dozen stars in a 6' diameter including 10 brighter mag 9-11.5 stars. The brightest star is mag 9.1 SAO 22794 is at the NW end and a distinctive line with three mag 10 stars heads SE and includes a fairly wide uneven double star (John Herschel's h1098 = 10/12.5 at 12"). Two mag 8 stars to the NW (mag 7.9 SAO 22785) and SW (mag 8.3 SAO 22796) are collinear with the sides and form a 10' triangle with the eastern vertex of the cluster. The classification of this group as a true cluster is uncertain.