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NGC2088
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:40:59.9
Declination: -68:27:56
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, R
Sub-type: OCL
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2088
30" (10/14/15 - OzSky): at 394x; bright, fairly small, irregular, ~35" diameter. Includes a bright quasi-stellar knot of stars near the center along with an individual star close east and a couple of mag 15-16 stars around the edges. A neat 6' curving stream of stars begins at a mag 11 star 4.5' north and arcs southeast. NGC 2088 is the first in a group of cluster with NGC 2096 7' E, NGC 2094 8.6' NE, NGC 2098 14' NE and NGC 2109 19' ESE.