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NGC2277

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:47:47.0
Declination: +33:27:17
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: Cl, vS, lRi
Sub-type: *

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2277 is an asterism of five faint stars.  It was found by d'A as he 
reobserved the interesting area containing NGC 2274, 2275, and the NGC 2290
group.  Apparently observing on a night of poor seeing (20 April 1865, 
described by him as "Aura pellucida" -- "Transparent sky" which tells us 
nothing about the seeing) or anxious to increase the number of nebulae in the 
area, he also found three other asterisms here (NGC 2278, 2284, and 2285, 
which see).

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2277

24" (1/4/14): a 7" pair of mag 13.4/14.1 stars were fairly easy to resolve at 375x even in soft seeing.  Located 9' SE of NGC 2274 (2' pair with NGC 2275).