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NGC2059

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:37:0.6
Declination: -70:7:45
Constellation: MEN
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, 5th of 7
Sub-type: OCL

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2059.  See NGC 2043 and NGC 2052, as well as "Baracchi-Melbourne" in the
"notngc" files.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2059

24" (4/9/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this LMC cluster is on the north side of a field of 8 NGC clusters.  At 200x it appeared moderately bright, fairly small, round, 35" diameter.  At 350x it appeared grainy but was still unresolved except for a faint star at the north edge.  Located 2.1' NNE of NGC 2058 and just 40" following a mag 12 star.