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NGC1978
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:28:45.2
Declination: -66:14:14
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: vB, vL, lE, vgpmbM
Sub-type: OCL
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1978
30" (10/14/15 - OzSky): this impressive LMC globular is extremely bright and large, noticeably elongated NNW-SSE, 2.3'x1.5', contains a large, very bright core (unresolved), and grainy halo. Only a few mag 15-16 stars are resolved around the edges at 303x. The NGC 1848 complex is 18' WSW, NGC 2003 is 19' SE and the "Eighth-Note Nebula" (LHa 120-N55) is 25' SE.
13.1" (2/20/04 - Costa Rica): bright, large, elongated NNW-SSE, 2.4'x1.5' (unusually elongated for a globular), weak even concentration to center, no resolution. This is a blue intermediate-age cluster or "blue globular", roughly 2 billion years old, with a million solar masses. NGC 1948, a combination star cloud/emission complex, lies 18' W.