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NGC1790
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:11:7.2
Declination: +52:3:30
Constellation: AUR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, group of 8 or 9 st 10
Sub-type: *Grp
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1790 is a group of about a dozen stars of 10th to 12th magnitude scattered
around JH's position. It probably looks better at the eyepiece than it does
on the Sky Survey prints; JH calls it "A pretty object," while RNGC puts it
into the "nonexistent" category. JH's position is about 3 arcminutes east
of the apparent center on the POSS1 blue plate.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1790
18" (2/19/09): scattered, unimpressive group of 15 stars mag 11.5 and brighter in an elongated 15'x8' region. The main body of stars is extended ~E-W. A small group of stars is detached off the NW side, including a mag 10 star and an easy 14" pair. At the east end is a small clump of 4 stars (one very faint) just following mag 9.3 HD 33247, the brightest member. There are no rich regions and the group does not appear to be a cluster visually. Classified as nonexistent in the RNGC.