IC 240

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Asterism
IC 240
Constellation Perseus
Position
equinox : J2000.0
Right ascension 02h 38m 58.6s
declination + 41 ° 43 ′ 08 ″
Further data
Number of stars

4th

history
discovery

Guillaume Bigourdan

Catalog names
IC  240 •
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In the New General Catalog, IC 240 denotes four apparently close together stars in the constellation Perseus . The catalog entry goes back to an observation made by the astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan in 1890.

Individual evidence

  1. https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ic2.htm#ic240

Attention: The sorting key "IC 0240" overwrites the previously used key "IC0240".