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NGC1916
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:18:36.5
Declination: -69:24:25
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: B, S, R, vgvmbM, r
Sub-type: OCL
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1916. Archinal and Hynes have a strange entry for this LMC cluster in
Table C.1, page 312. The position they give is for Shapley-Lindsay 357; there
is only a total magnitude and a reference to Uranometria chart 212, with no
comments or aliases. Checking the position of NGC 1916 in AH's table, I find
no cluster there, so the object is effectively missing from their list.
JH's position agrees almost perfectly with the modern positions, so there is
no problem with the identification. It's simply missing from AH's "Star
Clusters".
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1916
24" (4/5/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 200x, this LMC globular was very bright, moderately large, round, symmetric, 45" diameter. The center was sharply concentrated with a small blazing core! NGC 1903, a showpiece globular, lies 8' NW. Located within the LMC's central bar, ~10' S of the large NGC 1910 complex that contains S Doradus.