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NGC2252
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 6:34:19.8
Declination: +5:19:22
Constellation: MON
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vL, pRi, lC, st S
Sub-type: IV2p
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2252
18" (3/13/04): at 115x, this fairly rich field is located just 50' NE of the center of the Rosette Nebula! Most distinctive in the field is a very elongated N-S group of roughly 50 stars in a 12'-15' string just 2' wide. The group has a distinctive hook on the north end as it curves sharply towards the SW. A near perfect triangle of mag 9 stars at 30", 34" and 40" separation lies 23' E.