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NGC1785
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 4:58:35.3
Declination: -68:50:37
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: No description, in Nubec major
Sub-type: *Grp
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1785 is an asterism of about 5 stars superposed on the LMC. It was found
by JH in Zone 9 of his special sweeps of the Large Cloud with "an
equatorially mounted telescope of five inches aperture, and seven feet focal
length, by Tulley, which had served me for the measurement of double stars in
England ..." The position is good, and it is accurately plotted on JH's
wonderful map of the LMC.
ESO suggested two different objects as candidates for N1785. One was a chain
of 5-10 stars (of which JH's object is the south-western end); the other was
Shapley-Lindsay 150, a faint LMC open cluster about 20 arcmin south-east of
JH's astersim. This latter is much too faint to have been seen during sweeps
with a five-inch refractor, and the position is well off JH's.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1785
18" (4/6/16 - Coonabarabran, 236x): asterism of 8 stars superimposed on the LMC. It includes two mag 11/11.7 stars at the northeast end and a roughly 9" pair of mag 12/12.5 stars at the southwest end. BSDL 375, a very faint nebulous patch, was noticed 2' following the two stars at the northeast end of NGC 1785. One or two mag 15 stars were resolved on the south side of the glow.