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NGC2218

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:24:42.0
Declination: +19:20:42
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Cooper
Year of discovery: 1853
Discovery aperture: 13.5

Observational

Summary description: F, Cl (Auwers No 22)
Sub-type: NF

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2218 is only an asterism of five stars (not just four as I had earlier
said).  It is one of the "nebulae" recorded in the Markree Catalogue, pulled 
out by Auwers in his 1862 compilation of the nebulae found by others than the 
Herschels.  Auwers looked for it, but had to note "Invisible in the 
Heliometer."  The original position is good.