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NGC2257
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 6:30:13.0
Declination: -64:19:29
Constellation: DOR
Visual Magnitude: 13.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: F, cL, R, vglbM, r, 17s.0 d
Sub-type: OCL
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2257
13.1" (2/18/04 - Costa Rica): fairly faint, fairly large, round, 1.5'-2' diameter, broad weak concentration, no resolution. An elongated group of a half-dozen mag 10-11 stars oriented NW-SE passes just north of the cluster. This is one of the oldest LMC globulars and is located at the north-east periphery of the cloud and is comparable in age to galactic globulars, ~10 billion years old.