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NGC2137

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 5:53:13.2
Declination: -69:28:55
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, f of 2
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2137

30" (10/13/15 - OzSky): at 394x; moderately bright, small, round, 20" diameter, lively, several extremely faint mag 16+ stars resolved.  A mag 13 star is 50" NE.  NGC 2137 is the fainter and smaller of a striking double cluster with much brighter NGC 2136 just 1.4' SW!