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NGC559
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:29:31.0
Declination: +63:18:6
Constellation: CAS
Visual Magnitude: 9.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, B, pL, pRi
Sub-type: II2m
Steve's Notes
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NGC 559
17.5" (11/2/91): about 50 stars mag 10-15 at 220x in a 6'x4' region. Fairly compact and rich with an irregular outline. Includes a thin isosceles triangle of three mag 10 stars with the base to the south. The southeast star in this base is a close unequal double. A number of the stars are arranged in strings including four mag 13-14 stars over haze trail from base to the north. Also four mag 8/9 stars precede the cluster to the northwest in a 10' string.