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NGC2582

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:25:12.1
Declination: +20:20:3
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, R, glbM, * p 75"
Sub-type: SBab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2582 = IC 2359.  Here is a curious case.  This is clearly noted as NGC 
2582 in Wolf's first list, yet Dreyer still assigned it an IC number.  There 
is no particular reason that he should have done this that I can see.  The NGC
position (from the two Herschels) agrees well with the GSC position, and with 
Wolf's position, and the descriptions are compatible.  Oh, well -- these 
things happen.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2582

17.5" (1/1/92): faint, fairly small, round, weak concentration, very symmetrical appearance.  A bright double star O·191 = 7.2/9.2 at 38" lies at the edge of the 220x field 11' SW.  Outlying member of Cancer I galaxy cluster.