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NGC2361
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:18:23.7
Declination: -13:12:32
Constellation: CMA
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1877
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vvF, vS
Sub-type: EN
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2361. Bigourdan did not have much luck with NGC 2359. He only saw it
well on one night (out of three attempts) with his long-focus refractor. The
only part of it suitable for micrometric measuring that he did see turned out
to be the knot that we now know as NGC 2361. Another "nebula" in the area
that he found, IC 468 (which see), is a triple star.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2361
48" (4/15/10): Along the northern edge of the rim of Thor's Helmet are three collinear mag 11 stars (2.2' length) oriented E-W. The rim of the bubble is noticeably brighter in a thin arc beginning due north of center (between the two western stars) and extending about 90¡ clockwise to the west. Bigourdan's NGC 2359 refers to this brighter portion of the Wolf-Rayet nebula. See observing notes for NGC 2359 for a complete description of the nebula.