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NGC2260
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 6:38:3.0
Declination: -1:28:20
Constellation: MON
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vL, P, vlC, st L ___DREYER___ S
Sub-type: OCL
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 2260. WH calls this "A cl of v sc sts of various sizes, above 1/2 degree
in extent." The GC and NGC adopted JH's position for the brightest star on
the northern edge of the cluster, HD 47362. JH's description is "Very coarse,
v poor, v straggling; the chief * 8 taken."
I make the center of the cluster about six arcmin south of JH's star. While
the cluster is apparently pretty large, I don't see that it can reach WH's
30+ arcmin estimate. Nevertheless, I think it might be a nice object in a
small telescope.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2260
17.5" (2/1/03): roughly 50 stars are visible at 100x spread out over 15'. The stars are in two main subgroups, oriented SW and NE. The SW group includes mag 8.0 SAO 133489 with a rich arc of stars trailing to the north. The NE group is highlighted by mag 7.1 SAO 133505 with a nice 20" mag 11/12 double 1.5' SSE. Also an isolated mag 8.3 star is at the southern vertex of an obtuse triangle with these two groups. Listed as nonexistent in the RNGC.