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NGC2069
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:38:40.0
Declination: -69:0:18
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: F, L, E
Sub-type: EN
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2069. JH says of this, "The middle of a large extended faint nebulous
mass which forms the northern branch of the great looped nebula [NGC 2070 =
30 Doradus], and is almost, or entirely, detached from it." The
short-exposure V-band plate from which the GSC was derived shows this area
pretty much as JH may have seen it. On this plate, it is fairly easy to see
that N2069 is a knot in the northern streamer leading away from 30 Dor. JH
has the same knot shown in his sketches of the area, and it is this that I've
provided a position for. ESO has chosen a much fainter part of the streamer
2.5 arcmin on north, but that is not the brighter knot that JH indicated.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2069
18" (7/8/02 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the northern outer loop of the Tarantula Nebula which Dunlop and Herschel catalogued separately. See observing notes for NGC 2070.