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| M-40 is essentially a faint double star. Charles Messier recorded the position of the stars when he was searching for nebulosity erroneously reported at this position. He therefore gave them a number in his catalog. I imaged them so I could say I had images all of the Messier Objects. | |
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Magnitude: 8.4 Number of Stars: 2 RA: 12h 22m 12s Dec: +58d 04m 59s |
