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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
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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
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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.