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NGC1787

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:0:2.0
Declination: -65:47:42
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1837
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: Cl, vL, pRi
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1787 is a large (20 arcmin by 15 arcmin) cloud of stars in the LMC.  This
number has been applied to SL 178, but that is a faint, small cluster that JH
did not see.  

On the Hodge-Wright Atlas, I put the center about five arcmin northwest of 
JH's position, but either will serve to identify his cluster.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1787

13.1" (2/17/04 - Costa Rica): large cloud of stars (association LH 15), 15'-20' in size, over an extensive haze of unresolved stars.  40-50 mag 11-13 stars are visible at 105x within the cluster.  NGC 1783 is located 15' S.