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NGC1877
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:13:39.0
Declination: -69:23:0
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, 3rd of group in Cl
Sub-type: OCL+EN
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1877 is one of a group of nebulae and star clusters in the LMC found by
JH. Even though his sketch has it just south of NGC 1876, there is nothing
exactly at the position he shows. There is an elongated complex of stars and
nebulae centered just southwest of his knot. I've adopted a position close to
the bright, central nebular knot in this complex for N1877. This knot, which
I've called "NGC 1877 m" is the middle of a row of three knots or clumps of
stars, all of which I've labeled and have found positions for. See NGC 1874
for more on this complex of clusters and nebulae.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1877
24" (4/5/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the third in an interesting group of HII regions and is located just 1' SE of much brighter NGC 1876. At 200x with a UHC filter it appeared faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, with several stars involved. NGC 1877 forms the SE vertex of a small equilateral triangle with NGC 1874 and 1876. NGC 1880 lies another 1.5' ESE.