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NGC1798

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:11:39.3
Declination: +47:41:44
Constellation: AUR
Visual Magnitude: 10.0

Historic Information


Discoverer: Barnard
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 6.0

Observational


Summary description: S, Cl or Cl + neb
Sub-type: II2m

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1798 18" (11/18/06): at 115x I was surprised to find a fairly rich group of perhaps 20 stars peppered over a 5' region of extensive haze. The low power Milky Way field is rich in bright and faint stars with glowing regions of unresolved stars. Listed as nonexistent in the RNGC and not plotted on the first edition of the Uranometria 2000.0.