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NGC1847
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:7:8.2
Declination: -68:58:17
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: B, S, lE, ** in M
Sub-type: OCL
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1847
24" (11/18/12 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): very bright LMC blue globular, moderately large, irregular elongated shape, high surface brightness glow with a small fainter halo, ~0.6'x0.4'. At 200x, several mag 14.5-15.5 stars are resolved (a couple are fairly easy) within and at the edges of the central glow. NGC 1825 lies 15' WNW, NGC 1856 is 16' SE and NGC 1855/1858 are ~15' NE. John Herschel described a "double star in the centre" and I'm sure this refers to the two brightest central stars.