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NGC2448

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:44:34.5
Declination: -24:40:51
Constellation: PUP
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: Cl of 18 or 20 st 11…13
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2448.  JH notes this as "A * 8 m followed by a poor cl of 18...20 sts,
11...13 m."  The bright star is called Lalande 15134 in the NGC; its more
recent names include HR 3004 and HD 62747.  The "cluster" is hardly more than
a group of about a dozen stars.  I've given the position as the center of this
group rather than that of the bright star preceding.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2448

18" (3/13/04): at 115x, this is a fairly distinctive 15' elongated group with mag 5.6 HD 62747 near the geometric center.  The stars are arranged in a concave star chain extended E-W opening towards the north with the mag 5.6 star just a couple of arc minutes north of the center of the arc.