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NGC1868

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:14:36.5
Declination: -63:57:18
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, pL, R, vglbM
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1868

30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 394x; bright, moderately large, round, fairly thin halo, 1.0' diameter, mottled and high surface brightness but not resolved.  A mag 12 star lies 2.5' NE.  Resides in an fairly sparse field 57' SE of mag 5.2 WZ Doradus.