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NGC7202

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 22:6:43.3
Declination: -31:13:7
Constellation: PSA
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: eF, S, stellar, 2nd of 4
Sub-type: *

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 7202 is a star. JH has only one observation of it, though he swept the area three times. Interestingly, he never saw more than three objects in this field in any sweep, and picked up only two in one sweep. Nevertheless, he entered the group as four nebulae in GC, in spite of his descriptions clearly stating that there were only three nebulae in the area. Still, this is not a compact group, with N7201 and N7204 being separated by 13.5 arcmin, so he probably realized that he could have easily missed one. He stresses in a note that the RA is determined relative to NGC 7203 -- he puts it exactly one second of time preceding. The declination difference also puts N7202 exactly 3.0 arcmin south, so I suspect that this, too, is a relative determination, perhaps a simple estimated distance. In any case, the object at the offset is a star; it matches JH's description ("eF, S, star like") as well.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 7202 18" (10/25/08): this is a single mag 14.5 star located just east of the midpoint of a line connecting NGC 7201 and NGC 7203. Does not have a nebulous appearance at 280x.