Type | Star |
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Magnitude | Right Ascension | 0h 10' 53.6" (2000) |
Declination | 18° 47' 46" N |
Constellation | Pegasus |
Description | F (Auw. I) |
Harold Corwin
NGC 32 is apparently the northeastern of a pair of stars separated by about 30 arcsec. It was found by Julius Schmidt on 10 Oct 1861, probably from Athens (where Schmidt had become director of the observatory 3 years earlier) with a 6.2-inch Ploessl refractor. He made a micrometric measurement of it, and provided a generic description, "A faint nebula." Auwers lists this as the first object in his appendix of nebulae discovered since the Herschels. Schmidt's position is within 3 arcsec of the star, so it is almost certainly the object he saw.― NGC Notes by Harold Corwin
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