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NGC1624

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 4:40:36.4
Declination: +50:27:42
Constellation: PER
Visual Magnitude: 11.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: F, cL, iF, 6 or 7 st + neb
Sub-type: I2pn

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1624

13.1" (12/22/84): fairly bright, round, compact glow surrounding a small group of at least five stars mag 11.8 and fainter using a UHC filter.  The brightest cluster member (NGC 1624-2) and the principal source of ionization is the most magnetic massive star known with 35 solar masses and 20,000x the sun's magnetic field.