Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  NGC 752  ·  The star 56And
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NGC752 - 20210125 - Evoguide ED50, altazastro
NGC752 - 20210125 - Evoguide ED50
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NGC752 - 20210125 - Evoguide ED50

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NGC752 - 20210125 - Evoguide ED50

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I remember well NGC 752 from my "visual" days because it was on the path to NGC 891, and indeed it is so extended and with enough stars that it would not look out of place in the Messier catalogue.

History tells us that it was probably first discovered by the Italian astronomer  Giovanni Battista Hodierna before 1654, albeit he wasn't credited with the discovery because his work was largely ignored until the 1980s.

So Messier could have seen it with his instruments and put it in its catalogue, but things went otherwise and the world had to wait until Herschel.

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NGC752 - 20210125 - Evoguide ED50, altazastro