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NGC2011

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:32:20.3
Declination: -67:31:24
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.6

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: vB, S, R, psmbM
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2011 30" (11/5/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): very bright, tight intense knot of four stars (a couple are quite bright) enveloped in a 1.5' triangular glow with a few additional stars resolved within the boundaries of the emission nebula. A 3' line of brighter stars (part of the stellar association LH 75) oriented E-W passes through the south end of the glow. The surrounding fields include a number of fascinating objects with a cluster and star cloud ~6' E (S-L 567), a bright, compact cluster/nebula 8' NE (NGC 2021), a large bright cluster/nebula 10' S (NGC 2014), a large ring-shaped emission nebula (NGC 2020) 12' SSE and the Seagull Nebula complex (NGC 2030/2032/2035) 17' E. NGC 2011 is embedded in the OB association LH 75.