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NGC3228
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:21:22.0
Declination: -51:43:42
Constellation: VEL
Visual Magnitude: 6.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Lacaille
Year of discovery: 1751
Discovery aperture: 0.5
Observational
Summary description: Cl, 9 L and a few S st
Sub-type: I1p
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3228. JH's position is crude and marked uncertain. But the group of
stars is so striking and so perfectly described by JH, "A group of 9 L, and a
few sc small stars", that there is no mistaking the correct object.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3228
13.1" (2/18/04 - Costa Rica): bright, 15' open cluster in Vela. Prominent in 9x50 finder and easy in 10x30 IS binoculars. The main portion consists of 9 mag 8-10 stars. Scattered about are a few additional mag 9 and 10 stars in a 15' field. Perhaps 3 dozen stars total are within the boundary, though besides the bright stars the remaining are mostly mag 13-14 and appear to be a random background scattering of stars in a rich Milky Way field.