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NGC2390

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:29:4.2
Declination: +33:50:13
Constellation: GEM
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Ball
Year of discovery: 1866
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF
Sub-type: *

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2390 and NGC 2391 are both stars near NGC 2388 and NGC 2389.  Both are
shown in Ball's diagram of 10 Dec 1866, and he has a micrometric measurement 
of NGC 2390.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2390

18" (1/13/07): this is a 14th magnitude star located 1.4' S of NGC 2389.  Misidentified as a nebulous object by Robert Ball, a Birr Castle assistant.