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NGC1953

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:25:27.9
Declination: -68:50:18
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0

Observational


Summary description: pB, S, R, glbM
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 1953 24" (4/7/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 200x, this LMC globular appeared bright, moderately large, round,~50" diameter, with a brighter core. At 350x, it was grainy with a couple stars easily resolved at the edges of the halo. The nucleus appears offset from center towards the east. The interesting NGC 1962-65-66-70 HII complex and cluster follows with NGC 1962 4.5' due east and stretching quite a distance to the east and SE lie a huge number of clusters, star clouds and HII regions.