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NGC2354
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:14:10.0
Declination: -25:41:24
Constellation: CMA
Visual Magnitude: 6.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, cRi, lC
Sub-type: III2m
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2354. Like many of the clusters that the Herschel's found, this one is
relatively large and "straggling" to use one of JH's favorite words. He notes
this as a "Loose straggling cl; the p part is rather separated from the f, and
more compressed. Place that of 3 sts in the f part." I see the two parts
clearly on the DSS, and make the entire thing about 16 arcmin in diameter. I
put the center of the cluster about 4 arcmin northwest of JH's position (where
I see only two stars, not three).
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2354
17.5" (3/12/94): ~100 stars in a 20' diameter, circular outline, fairly uniform in magnitudes. There are no prominent subgroups or individual stars but the cluster is fairly detached in the field at 100x. Unconcentrated with a 9'x3' void or dark lane in the center elongated N-S. A double star with components 11.5/12.5 at 14" separation is just following the dark lane towards the south end.