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NGC1718

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 4:52:25.4
Declination: -67:3:3
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 12.3

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: F, pS, R, vglbM
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1718 18" (7/9/02 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this LMC cluster appeared at 128x as a fairly faint, round, 1' diameter, well-defined knot with no resolution. A mag 14 star is 1' SSE of center. Located 8' SSE of NGC 1714 and 6' N of a mag 9 star.