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NGC1947
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:26:47.3
Declination: -63:45:39
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: pB, L, R, glbM, * 9 np
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1947. Note the correct position given in the table; the error was
apparently first reported by Shapley and Ames in their 1932 catalog. GC and
NGC followed CGH without comment, of course, having only the one observation
from JH to go on. Not so coincidentally, his incorrect position has "... a
star 9m np" just as does the galaxy itself ...
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1947
18" (4/6/16 - Coonabarabran, 236x): fairly bright and large, slightly elongated, ~2.5'x2.0', well concentrated with a bright core that gradually increases to the center. A mag 9.7 star (HD 36355) lies 4.2' NNW. The LMC cluster NGC 1942 lies 17' SW and S-L 509 is 21' NE.
24" (4/4/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): very bright, large, round, contains a large, very bright core surrounded by a fainter halo with a total diameter of ~3'. Within the brighter 2' core is a sharply concentrated brighter nucleus. This is an impressive S0 or E-galaxy at 200x due to the high surface brightness core and several brightness levels. Situated in the outskirts of the LMC with S-L 509, a faint LMC cluster, 21' NE. On images, the minor axis of this elliptical is bisected by a dust lane, though this feature wasn't noticed.