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NGC2451

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 7:45:24.0
Declination: -37:57:0
Constellation: PUP
Visual Magnitude: 2.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: Cl, vvL, vlC, 1 * 4·5 m
Sub-type: II2p

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2451

13.1" (2/25/84): very bright scattered group of stars including yellow mag 3.6 c Puppis and about 10 bright stars.  This naked-eye cluster appears very large but lacking in faint stars.  Recent research shows this is a random grouping and not a cluster. 

8" (3/28/81): very bright, very large, very scattered, includes mag 4 c Puppis.  Resolved in 8x50 finder.