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NGC1918
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:19:7.1
Declination: -69:39:45
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: No description, in Nubec major
Sub-type: SNR
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1918 is from JH's list of stars, clusters, and nebulae in the LMC
collected with a five-inch refractor. He simply calls it a nebula with no
other description. His position falls between two bright knots near a
supernova remnant in the LMC. ESO chose the SNR, but I have adopted the mean
position of the knots.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1918
24" (4/5/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is a combination LMC cluster and nebula (classified as a supernova remnant). At 200x a striking double star (TDS 3145 = 11.6/11.8 at 9") sits within the glow with a third star in a line and an additional 20 stars are resolved in the cluster (stellar association LH 42). These stars are immersed in a diffuse nebulous glow that responds well to a UHC filter. The brightest section is a patch just east of the double star (LMC N120C), but nebulosity extends throughout the cluster as an elongated glow of ~5' length. On images the nebulosity appears more like an arc or rim with some filamentary structure.