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NGC2364
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Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:20:46.4
Declination: -7:32:58
Constellation: MON
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, pC, st pL, bifid
Sub-type: OCL
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2364 is a curious object, probably a simple asterism of unrelated stars.
It is composed of two n-s lines of half a dozen stars each, with a void
between the lines. The two star streams are slightly tilted with respect to
each other, and there is another star at the apparent apex to the north.
There is a straggling line of similarly bright stars running east just to the
south of the eastern stream.
There is no question about the identification as JH's position and description
are perfect for the object. Most of the stars may be bright enough that we
can check their proper motions, too, in Tycho-2 or in UCACS. That is left as
an exercise for the curious.
Curiously, RNGC has this as "Not found" even though it is very clear on the
DSS and, presumeably, the Palomar Sky Survey prints. I noted the NGC position
and description correct when I scanned through for ESGC in the mid-80s, and
Brian Skiff says "*ism, but real object".
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2364
18" (3/13/04): pretty neat group of 50-60 stars at 115x arranged in two rows of stars converging towards the north. The eastern group of stars hooks on the SE end, bending back towards the north. Both groups have strings of faint stars extending to the north beyond a mag 9.5 star located ~5' N of the main groups. Listed as a nonexistent cluster in the RNGC, although the group is fairly distinctive.