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NGC2432
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:40:53.0
Declination: -19:4:36
Constellation: PUP
Visual Magnitude: 10.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, pL, pC, E 0°, st L and S
Sub-type: II1p
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2432 is difficult to pick out against the rich Milky Way background. Both
Herschel's saw it as elongated in the meridian, WH making the central, most
compressed part 8 arcmin long and 2 arcmin wide. The cluster that we see on
the DSS images is somewhat more scattered than that, but the major diameter is
about what WH estimated.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2432
18" (3/2/08): at 175x, appears a very distinctive 5' N-S string with a total of ~60 stars resolved in a 5'x3' area. The richest part is along the string with numerous mag 13-14.5 stars packed tightly. The north side of the string bifurcates into two prongs.
13.1" (1/11/86): three dozen faint stars mag 12-15 in a very elongated string oriented N-S with dimensions 5'x1.5'. This is a rich, pretty group with several pairs.
13.1" (1/18/85): ~35 faint stars in an elongated string along one side of bright trapezoid of stars.
8" (3/28/81): rich in faint stars or haze, small, elongated.
80mm (3/2/08): faintly visible in the finder at 25x as a thin, elongated glow N-S.