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NGC2408

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:40:30.0
Declination: +71:40:0
Constellation: CAM
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: Cl, vlC
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2408 is probably a field irregularity.  On DSS, I see a scatterering of
20-30 stars, roughly 10th - 12th magnitude, covering an area of about 25 by
20 arcmin.  It is centered just west of the brightest star in the ensemble;
this seems to be the star that JH took for his position.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2408

18" (3/13/04): at 115x, ~50 stars mag 9.5 and fainter are scattered in a 20' triangular group.  The group is unconcentrated and there are only a few stars within the interior of the outline.  Strings of stars extend off the triangle so there no clear boundaries to the group and it appears to be a chance asterism or an open cluster remnant.  A mag 9 star is on the west side of the group.