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NGC2279

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:48:24.7
Declination: +33:24:52
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Bigourdan
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 12.4

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, stellar Nucl
Sub-type: *3

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2279 is a triple star (one star is very faint) found by Bigourdan while he 
was measuring the previously discovered nebulae and asterisms in the area.  
See NGC 2277 for more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2279

24" (1/4/14): this is an unequal pair of mag 14.1/15.7 stars at 14" separation.  The faint companion was just visible in soft seeing at 375x.  Situated just 2' NE of NGC 2278, an easier 10" pair of mag 14.0/14.4 stars.