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NGC1901
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:17:48.0
Declination: -68:26:0
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, BM, lRi, st 7…
Sub-type: III3m
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1901 is a scattered grouping of Milky Way stars superposed on the Large
Magellanic Cloud. The position I list in the table is for the eccentric core
a few arcminutes northeast of the center of the entire group. JH's position
applies to the seventh magnitude star on the southern edge of the group.
Coincidentally, there is a much fainter LMC cluster just a couple of arcmin
from JH's position. ESO took this to be the NGC cluster, but it is not.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1901
14" (4/7/16 - Coonabarabran, 142x and 184x): very scattered cluster of stars in a 15' region. The central grouping, extending 7'x2.5', is the most compressed with ~15 stars (7 of these are fairly bright). Perhaps 40 stars total within 15', including 10 brighter stars. The brightest stars are mag 8.4 HD 35294 in the central group and mag 7.6 HD 35230 on the southwest end. This sparse Milky Way cluster or asterism is superimposed on the LMC. The true LMC cluster S-L 359, just 1.3' WSW of the mag 8.4 star, was not seen.