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NGC1582
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:31:39.0
Declination: +43:44:36
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 7.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vL, pRi, lC, st L
Sub-type: IV2p
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1582
18" (11/26/03): at 115x, appears a very large, scattered field with a number of brighter stars. There are no denser regions of fainter stars to distinguish this as a cluster although the star density drops rapidly to the west (edge of Milky Way?). Most distinctive is a stream of bright stars which extends 20' SW of the cluster's position and includes a number of mag 8-10 stars. The string begins with mag 8.7 SAO 39581 and includes a 16" pair of mag 10 stars as well as mag 8.6 SAO 39578. The classification of this group as a true cluster is doubtful.