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NGC2428
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:39:22.0
Declination: -16:31:42
Constellation: PUP
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vL, vlC
Sub-type: OCL
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2428. See NGC 2430.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2428
18" (2/4/08): at 175x, roughly 40 stars in 10' barely stand out as a group within a rich Milky Way field. Most eye-catching is a small trapezoidal group with a double star at the NW vertex and a wide pair at the SE vertex. A string of 3 stars oriented SW-NE is within the trapezoid. Off the SE vertex an oval chain of stars extends south and west before looping back towards the trapezoid. There are no dense regions and this appears to be an asterism. An even weaker concentration of stars about 10' NNE may be NGC 2430. Listed as nonexistent in the RNGC.