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NGC2156
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:57:50.4
Declination: -68:27:39
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 11.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: pB, S, R, gbM, 1st of 3
Sub-type: OCL
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2156
24" (4/11/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the first of four bright clusters in a 16' field! At 200x it appeared bright, fairly large, elongated N-S, ~1.2'x0.8', sharply concentrated. At 350x a couple of stars are resolved in the halo and the central core is just broken up into several clumps or knots with a couple of very faint stars resolved. Located 6.9' NW of the impressive cluster globular NGC 2164.