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NGC2248
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 6:34:35.3
Declination: +26:18:21
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Cooper
Year of discovery: 1853
Discovery aperture: 13.5
Observational
Summary description: Small cluster (Auw 23)
Sub-type: *Grp
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2248. This asterism of nine stars was recorded in the Markree Catalogue
where it remained essentially unnoticed until Auwers reobserved it in the late
1850s. He included it in his 1862 list of nebulae and clusters found by
observers other than the Herschels, and JH picked it up there for the GC. The
original position is good.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2248
18" (2/14/10): at 175x a small clump of 4 stars was resolved. The brightest two are a 16" pair of mag 12/13 stars, while the fainter two are probably mag 14.5/15.5.