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NGC1772

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 4:56:52.9
Declination: -69:33:22
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.0

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: pB, pS, iR, rr
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1772 18" (7/10/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): fairly bright, fairly small, irregularly round, 40"x35". Sharply concentrated with a bright, 15" core. Three faint stars are resolved on the south side of the cluster and one on the north side. Forms the southern vertex of a triangle with LMC clusters NGC 1767 9.5' NNW and NGC 1782 11' NNE, which are part of stellar association LH 8.