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NGC1818

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:4:14.8
Declination: -66:26:4
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 9.7

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: globular, vB, pL, R, vmC, rr
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1818 30" (11/4/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): very bright, fairly large, 2.5' diameter, sharply concentrated with an intense core that is partially resolved into several very faint stars. The halo is fairly well resolved with two dozen faint stars plus some brighter mag 12-13 stars in the outer halo. Just off the southwest edge is KMHK 490, a very small non-stellar object that appears like a close double star. Brightest of a trio with NGC 1810 6' NW and S-L 205 5' NE. S-L 205 is just a faint, diffuse glow, roughly 35" diameter. NGC 1822 and NGC 1826, a fainter pair of clusters, lie 14' NNE. NGC 1818 is a "young" blue globular (YPC), formed only 40 million years ago.