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NGC2386

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:28:38.1
Declination: +33:46:35
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Parsons L.
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: Stellar
Sub-type: *2

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2386 is a triple star near NGC 2388 and NGC 2389.  Like many other 
asterisms found by Lord Rosse and his observers, it was taken to be part of a
group of nebulae, probably on a night of poor seeing.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2386

18" (1/13/07): this is an 18" pair of mag 13/14 stars that was misidentified by Rosse as a nebulous object in the field of NGC 2389.  There is a fainter mag 15 star a bit further west forming a triangle.