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NGC2066
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:37:43.2
Declination: -70:10:0
Constellation: MEN
Visual Magnitude: 13.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, E, 7th of 7
Sub-type: OCL
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2066. See NGC 2052.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2066
24" (4/9/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 260x appeared moderately bright and large, round, 45" diameter, very weakly concentrated. Located on the eastern end of a rich field of 9 NGC clusters and forms the vertex of an isosceles right triangle with NGC 2065 4.2' due south and NGC 2058 4.1' due west.