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NGC1938

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:21:24.8
Declination: -69:56:22
Constellation: MEN
Visual Magnitude: 11.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, pS, R, glbM, D neb 339°, 50"
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 1938 is an open cluster in the LMC situated just 0.7 arcmin northwest of 
NGC 1939, a globular cluster.  ESO did not give separate coordinates so I've
adopted that for NGC 1939 from GSC and have measured the offset to N1938 from
the brighter cluster.  JH's position and descriptions are good, though he did
not resolve either cluster.  In particular, his micrometric measurement of the
offset of N1938 from N1939 (distance = 50 arcsec, PA = 339.1 degrees) is very
good.
 

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1938

30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): fainter of a close pair of clusters with brighter NGC 1939 to the south-southeast by just 40".  At 303x, NGC 1938 appeared fairly faint, small, round, 24" diameter.