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NGC7394

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 22:50:12.0
Declination: +52:10:8
Constellation: LAC
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1829
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: Cl, vP
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 7394 is a scattered group of pretty bright (9-11m) stars including JH's double. Stretched out in a ragged band 12 arcmin by 5 arcmin to the northwest is an extension to the core (8 arcmin by 5 arcmin) that JH describes: "A double star, the last of a poor cluster of about a dozen stars." I doubt that all this is a part of any physical cluster, but proper motions, radial velocities, and photometry should tell us eventually.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 7394 17.5" (9/26/92): bright group of two dozen stars mag 9-13 in a 10' scattered field. Very elongated in a string NW-SE. Includes 10 stars mag 9-11 with a mag 7 star off the SSE and a similar star 10' NNE. This group is probably an asterism. Listed as a nonexistent cluster in the RNGC.