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NGC1932
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:22:17.3
Declination: -66:9:14
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 13.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: pB, S, R, smbM, D neb 26°, 80"
Sub-type: *
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1932 and NGC 1933. JH found a faint nebula -- actually a compact star
cluster in the LMC -- here, and observed it four times. His mean position is
just a few arcsec from the center of the cluster, which ended up with 1933 as
its NGC number.
On the last night JH observed N1933, he also noticed a very faint, very small
nebulous object 80 arcsec west of his brighter object. When reducing his
observations, he noted it "curious" that he picked up this fainter object
only once. The object turns out to be a 13th magnitude star, though other
fainter stars in the area may contribute to its nebulous appearance.
Lauberts, of course, found only one non-stellar object in the area, so assumed
that N1932 = N1933. This incorrect equality is noted in ESO.