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NGC2044

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 5:36:6.0
Declination: -69:11:55
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.6

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: Cl, in Nubec major
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 2044 is one of the clusters that JH found with a five-inch refractor during his sweeps with it across the LMC. His "cluster" is likely the star cloud that I've listed in the table, as shown in the Hodge-Wright Atlas; ESO adopted the same interpretation. AH take a narrower view of the field, restricting JH's "cluster" to the line of three smaller clusters in the southeastern part of the star cloud.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 2044 18" (7/8/02 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): group of about a dozen stars in a 3' diameter at 171x dominated by three brighter stars in a 1' E-W string. Both the east and west "stars" in this line are actually compact clusters (BRHT 17a and 17b) with multiple components on a HST image. Situated in the outer portion of the 30 Doradus complex 16' SW from the central core. Like NGC 2060, this stellar association (LH 90) also harbors a young SNR! The site of SNR 1987A (05 35 28, -69 16.2) lies only 5.5' SW.