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NGC1896
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:25:41.9
Declination: +29:19:42
Constellation: AUR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vL, Ri, vlC, st 9…12
Sub-type: *Grp
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1896. A nine degree error in declination was introduced in the GC, and
copied intact into the NGC. The Herschels' original positions are good, and
point to a scattering of about 20 9th to 12th magnitude stars. This may not
be a real cluster, but that determination will depend on detailed studies of
proper motions and photometry of the stars.
This group, by the way, is not OCL 450 (in the Prague catalogue). That is a
much more distant, much fainter cluster about half a degree north-west of NGC
1896.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1896
18" (11/22/03): at 115x, this is a scattered group of two dozen or more stars (depending on assumed dimensions) situated northeast of mag 8.6 SAO 77158. The group is elongated NW-SE, ~10'x4' in size, although the borders of the group are arbitrary. Includes 10 brighter mag 10-12 stars. The declination given in the RNGC is 9 degrees too far south (listed as nonexistent).