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NGC2051

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:36:7.4
Declination: -71:0:41
Constellation: MEN
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information

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

Observational

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

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2051

24" (4/5/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 200x this LMC cluster appeared bright, fairly small, round, 35" diameter.  Located 12' ESE of brighter NGC 2031.  Two additional S-L clusters (617 and 624) share the field 8.5' SSE.  The cluster is also equidistant from a mag 9 star 8' NW and mag 7.6 HD 37899 a similar distance SW.