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NGC2195
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 6:14:34.8
Declination: +17:38:22
Constellation: ORI
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Lohse
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 15.5
Observational
Summary description: F, S, 2 S st inv, * 10 n 31"
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2195 is a double star; there are two fainter stars near to the north that
may have added to the illusion of nebulosity. The object was found by J. G.
Lohse who also noted the 10th magnitude star 31 arcsec north. It is this star
that clinches the identification since Lohse's RA is about 3 arcmin too far
west. RNGC picked the wrong object.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2195
17.5" (12/23/97): this close pair of mag 13/14 stars was picked up at 100x just south of a mag 10 star. At 220x and 280x this double star was cleanly resolved [10" separation] although the region between the pair and the bright star (just 30" from the southern star) appeared slightly hazy, probably due to two additional very close faint stars just below resolvability. At 410x, at least one very faint sparkle was occasionally glimpsed close to the mag 10 star. It is not difficult to see why Lohse may have suspected this object to be nebulous. Coincidentally, a very faint reflection nebula (GN 06.11.5) is located 6.7' NNW and it is misidentified as NGC 2195 in RNGC.