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NGC2038

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:34:42.4
Declination: -70:33:47
Constellation: MEN
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, R, gmM, * 9 np 5'
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2038

24" (11/18/12 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): very bright, fairly small, slightly elongated, 40" diameter, clumpy but no individual stars resolved.  First of three nearly on a line with NGC 2056 11' SE and NGC 2075 20' SE.  Located 4' SSE of mag 9.5 HD 37732.