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NGC2057

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:36:55.2
Declination: -70:16:8
Constellation: MEN
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pF, S, R, gbM, 3rd of 7
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2057.  See NGC 2052.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2057

24" (4/9/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this LMC cluster is on the south side of a field filled with 8 NGC clusters.  At 260x it appeared bright, fairly small, round, ~30" diameter, fairly well concentrated with a small bright core.  Situated on a line between NGC 2065 4' NE and a mag 10.4 HD 269839 3' SW.  NGC 2046 lies 6.8' WNW, 2047 7.0' NW and 2058 6.4' N.