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NGC752

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 1:57:35.0
Declination: +37:50:0
Constellation: AND
Visual Magnitude: 5.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Hodierna
Year of discovery: 1654
Discovery aperture:

Observational


Summary description: Cl, vvL, Ri, st L ___DREYER___ sc
Sub-type: III1m

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 752 17.5" (11/1/97): easy naked-eye cluster, overfills the 100x field (20mm Nagler). The brightest star is a yellowish mag 7 star just south of center. Two equal mag companions to the south form an isosceles triangle. There are no dense regions and the many brighter mag 9-10.5 stars are pretty evenly distributed throughout the field. Many of the stars appear to be arrange in long strings and arcs, though. There are perhaps 150 stars in the field (difficult to count) with a few nice pair and trios. Off the SW side just out of the field is a wide bright pair of mag 5.7/5.9 stars at 3.6' (naked-eye). The western of these two stars (56 Andromedae) has a striking orange-red hue and a faint companion. 8": very large, bright, many doubles, overfills low power field. Easy naked-eye open cluster in dark sky.