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NGC2164
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:58:55.0
Declination: -68:30:56
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 10.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: globular, vB, R, mCM, rr
Sub-type: OCL
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2164
24" (4/11/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the brightest of four clusters in a 10' field. At 260x it appeared very bright, large, round, sharply concentrated with an extremely bright core (appears to be a globular), the large outer halo extends to 2' diameter. Roughly 15 stars are resolved in the halo - some of these are easily resolved 14th mag stars, while others are quite faint. At 350x, two dozen stars are resolved and the core is very grainy. Overall, this is a very impressive cluster. NGC 2156 lies 6.8' NW, NGC 2159 is 8' SW and NGC 2172 is 9.7' SE..