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NGC1950
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:24:33.1
Declination: -69:54:9
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: The 1st of a group of 7!
Sub-type: OCL
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1950. See "SL 460" in the "notngc" files.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1950
24" (4/7/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the first in a group of clusters including NGC 1958, 1959, 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1986, towards the SE end. These clusters reside in a dense part of the LMC bar with a bright background glow. NGC 1950 forms the southwest vertex of a triangle with NGC 1959 5.5' ESE and NGC 1958 6.3' NE. At 260x it appeared moderately bright, fairly large, ~2' diameter, with a relatively low surface brightness. At 346x, several extremely faint stars pepper the surface of the cluster. A mag 11 star lies 3' E, within the triangle described above.