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NGC1557
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:13:14.0
Declination: -70:30:30
Constellation: HYI
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vlC, ab 20 sc st
Sub-type: *Grp
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1557 is a clump of 10-15 stars that cover an area of 15 arcmin by 10
arcmin a few degrees northwest of the LMC. JH's position applies to SAO
256073 = HD 27346, but the clump is centered about 5 arcmin south. That is
the position that I've adopted. ESO, Wolfgang Steinicke, and Tom DeMary put
the declination closer to the star, but that misses JH's "loose and
straggling" cluster.
The few stars marked "N1557" in the Hodge-Wright Atlas are northwest of JH's
object.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1557
14" (4/7/16 - Coonabarabran, 142x and 184x): very large, scattered group of 3 dozen stars mag 6.0 and fainter
(the next three are mag 9-10). Not rich but detached int the field. This possible cluster is projected onto the outer parts of the LMC.