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NGC1898

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:16:42.4
Declination: -69:39:23
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: F, pS, R
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1898 30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 394x; fairly bright, moderately large, irregular outline, nearly 1.0' diameter, bright central region, very mottled, contains a very small bright nucleus. A mag 12.5 star is just off the southwest edge, 30" from center and two mag 12 stars are 2' S and 1.7' SE . Set within a rich background glow from the LMC, 12' W of NGC 1918, a large nebulous cluster. Open cluster S-L 363 is 6' E and NGC 1894 is 12' NNW.