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NGC1704

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 4:49:55.5
Declination: -69:45:23
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.5

Historic Information


Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0

Observational


Summary description: F, pS, lE, r
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1704 30" (11/6/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): bright, moderately large, slightly elongated, 1.1'x0.9'. Three bright collinear stars are resolved oriented E-W as well as a number of faint stars resolved in the halo. NGC 1702, a bright resolved cluster, lies 6' SSW and a mag 7.2 star (HD 31518) lies 6' SE. NGC 1704 forms the north vertex of an equilateral triangle with NGC 1702 and the bright star.