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NGC1220
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 3:11:40.6
Declination: +53:20:53
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 11.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vS, st vF
Sub-type: II2p
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1220
17.5" (12/28/94): very compact group of about a dozen faint stars mag 13.5-15 in a small 1.5' wedge-shaped clump. There is a very tight string of three strings at the NE end and the brightest mag 13 star is at the south end. Does not appear fully resolved due to density and background haze. This is a young cluster(60 million years old) at a distance of ~5900 light years in the Perseus Arm.
8" (11/28/81) : faint open cluster, small, six faint stars are visible over unresolved haze.