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NGC2436
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 7:45:13.3
Declination: +53:4:32
Constellation: LYN
Visual Magnitude: 13.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: SBa
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2436 is probably NGC 2431. JH's RA is exactly 1.0 min larger, and his Dec
exactly 1 deg smaller than those for NGC 2431. The description matches the
bright core of the galaxy, so I am pretty sure that the identity of the two
numbers is correct.
Nevertheless, there is a triple star about 3 arcmin southwest of JH's
uncorrected position (07 41 57.4, +52 09 36; B1950.0). This might be the
object he saw -- but I doubt it. The errors leading to NGC 2431 are too exact
to ignore.