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NGC7801

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:0:23.0
Declination: +50:44:24
Constellation: CAS
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: Cl, pRi, pC, st 9…
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 7801.  This is a possible cluster at JH's position.  He says of it only "A
double star in a tolerable cluster in which is one star 9 m."  To my eye on a
DSS image, this is a group of 20-30 stars covering an area about 15 arcmin by
11 arcmin.  Brian Skiff sees it as an "asterism, center defined as position of 
a wide magnitude 12 pair."  

Whatever the true nature of the object, the 9th magnitude star is a couple of
arcmin northwest of the double in the center of the group.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 7801

17.5" (11/6/93): three dozen mag 9-14 stars in a coarse 12'x6' group.  The rectangular outline is elongated 2:1 ~N-S.  Includes several brighter mag 9-10 stars (SAO 35975, 35977, 35990), scattered and best view at 100x.  A richer subgroup of 10 stars along the east side includes two nice doubles and several faint stars.  A mag 9 star is near a void in the center.  Listed as a nonexistent cluster in the RNGC.