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NGC2184

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:11:0.0
Declination: -3:29:0
Constellation: ORI
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: Cl, L, vlC
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2184 is a poor scattered cluster of about 20 stars, 10th to 12th 
magnitudes, similar to NGC 2180 (which see), but less well-defined with 
fainter stars.  I suspect it is nothing more than a collection of field stars.
JH's position for a double star is about 2 arcmin preceding the approximate 
center of the cluster.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2184

17.5" (12/23/92): scattered group of 75 stars mag 7.8 to 13 in a 30' diameter.  Bright, very large, includes a mag 7.8 star (HD 42761) on the SE, 10 mag 9 stars and two mag 8 stars off the SE end (one a nice double ·874 = 9.5/10.3 at 21").  There is no concentration towards the center and no dense regions.  Fills most of the 100x field.  Listed as nonexistent in the RNGC.