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NGC242

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 0:43:33.2
Declination: -73:26:33
Constellation: TUC
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, bi-N
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 242 = NGC 241, which see.  Also see NGC 222.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 242

18" (7/10/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 282x, this SMC cluster appeared fairly bright, slightly elongated E-W, 0.8'x0.6'.  A faint star is at the west end and another faint star or clump of stars is at the SE end.  A pair of mag 12.5/13 stars lie 2.5' SW.  NGC 248 lies 9' NE and NGC 256 can be found 11' ESE.