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NGC1707

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:58:21.1
Declination: +8:14:20
Constellation: ORI
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1828
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: S, R, rrr
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1707 = IC 2107 (which see for more) is an asterism of four stars with a
fifth (considerably fainter) just north.  JH's RA is 30 seconds of time too
large; this misled Bigourdan into rediscovering the object.

Reinmuth was apparently the first to notice that the two numbers apply to the
same object.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1707

17.5" (2/14/99): this is a compact group of four mag 13.5-14.5 stars within 30".  Easily picked up at 220x and three close stars visible.  At 280x, this multiple star is cleanly resolved in moments of good seeing.  Listed as nonexistent in RNGC.