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Key facts
- Right ascension
- 01 57 41
- Declination
- +37 ° 47.1 ′
- Distance
- 1,470 ly (450 pc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 75 ′
- Other designations
- Caldwell 28, Cr 23
- Constellation
- Andromeda
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 458
- Image
- NGC752-Tayson.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 752
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0151
- time of discovery or invention
- 1654-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Giovan Battista Hodierna
- apparent magnitude
- 5.7
- right ascension
- 29.4208
- declination
- 37.7850
- radial velocity
- 5.90
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- -0.03
- parallax
- 2.2304
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 9.809
- declination component of proper motion
- -11.763
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Encyclopedic overview
Map showing the location of NGC 752 NGC 752 (also known as Caldwell 28) is an open cluster in the constellation Andromeda. The cluster was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783 and cataloged by her brother William Herschel in 1786, although an object that may have been NGC 752 was described by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654.
The large cluster lies 1,400 light-years away from the Earth and is easily seen through binoculars, although it may approach naked eye visibility under good observing conditions. A telescope reveals about 60 stars no brighter than 9th magnitude within NGC 752.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 752” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.