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NGC2202

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:16:50.7
Declination: +5:59:48
Constellation: ORI
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Struve W.
Year of discovery: 1825
Discovery aperture: 9.6

Observational

Summary description: ** Chief of Cl
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2202.  JH wrote this about the double star Struve 885 in his 1833 list of
nebulae and clusters:  "The chief of a tolerably neat cl of L stars."  That is
indeed what we see, though the center of the cluster is about 2 arcmin to the
southwest of the double.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2202

17.5" (2/2/02): fairly distinctive asterism at 100x (20 Nagler), consisting of a bulbous mushroom-shaped ring of about a dozen fairly bright stars with a few others nearby.  Within this irregular ring is a nice, mag 9.1/10.8 double (SAO 113671) at 10" separation.  Adding to the effect is a straight trail of stars from the double forming a 10' "stem" heading to the NNE and containing a mag 8.7 star (SAO 113677).  Listed as a nonexistent cluster in the RNGC.