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NGC5749
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:48:48.8
Declination: -54:29:37
Constellation: LUP
Visual Magnitude: 8.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0
Observational
Summary description: Cl, pL, pRi, lC, st 10…11
Sub-type: IV1p
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5749
18" (7/5/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): With a 27 Panoptic (76x), a group of three dozen stars are scattered in an irregular 8' region. The cluster includes a number of 12th magnitude stars with a mag 9.5 star at the NW edge. At 228x, up to 60 stars within this group were counted. There are no rich subgroups but the most distinctive group is a V-shaped or "wishbone" asterism of mag 11 stars with the prongs opening to the east. Eight of the stars are grouped into wide pairs of 30" to 40" separation. A mag 9.7 yellow star lies ~6' E of the cluster.