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NGC2637
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 8:41:13.4
Declination: +19:41:25
Constellation: CNC
Visual Magnitude: 14.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, vS
Sub-type: S?
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2637 is one of two galaxies found in the eastern part of the Beehive by
Marth in 1864 (the other is NGC 2643, which see). Both are placed by Marth
too far south by about 10 arcmin, and too far east by 6 and 18 seconds,
respectively. The eight other objects that Marth found that same night show
no such offsets from the true positions, but these two are reasonably
consistent with each other, and are fairly close on the sky. I'll take the
identifications since nothing else in the area matches.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2637
18" (1/13/07): extremely faint, small, round, 24" diameter, very low surface brightness and only visible with averted vision. Located 7' E of mag 6.8 42 Cancri within the Beehive cluster. Also mag 6.8 HD 73819 is in the field to the south.
17.5" (2/8/97): extremely faint and small, round. Appears as 10" nebulous star which required averted vision to glimpse at moments. Appears fainter than 15.4z. Located 7' ESE of mag 6.7 SAO 98030 within M44. The identification of NGC 2637 with CGCG 089-065 is not certain due to a poor position by Marth.