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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

===== 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

===== 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.