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NGC2193

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 6:6:17.9
Declination: -65:5:57
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: F, iF, glbM, 2 or 3 st inv
Sub-type: OCL

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2193

13.1" (2/18/04 - Costa Rica): very faint, fairly small, round, ~1' diameter, low surface brightness.  NGC 2181 lies 24' SW.  This LMC globular is the most elliptical of any known globular cluster with e = 0.33 (see http://aa.springer.de/papers/9348002/2300418/sc2.htm).