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NGC2352

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 7:13:5.7
Declination: -24:2:20
Constellation: CMA
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: Cl, pRi, pC
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 2352. WH found this cluster on the night of 6 March 1785 and noted it as "A small cluster of pretty compressed stars, not very rich". While there is nothing at his position matching this description, such a concentration is just 40 seconds of time west at the same declination. The match is good enough that I'm going to take this as WH's object. Andris Lauberts, who first noticed the clump of 15-20 stars, is not so sure it is a cluster. In ESO-B, he calls it merely a concentration of stars. Either way, it is a fair match to WH's observation. There are, by the way, no other candidates at other obvious digit errors in the position.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2352 17.5" (3/8/97): at 82x there is no obvious cluster at this position, although there are about a dozen mag 12/13 stars in a 7' string ~N-S, roughly centered on a mag 11.5 star at 07 13.1 -24 03. At 220x, several fainter stars are visible increasing the total to ~20 stars and it stands out a little better. The stars in the N-S string are arranged in "seagull wings" concave to the west. Listed as nonexistent in RNGC.