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NGC 2010
NGC 2010, SL 531, ESO 56-139, h 2898, GC 1213
Type: open cluster
Mag: B=11.96, V=11.72
Size: ?
PA: ?
Historical observations
John Herschel (1847) Cape Observations
Discovered by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope with an 18-inch f/13 speculum telescope. He recorded it as "F, R, vglbM, 3'."
Published comments
Shapley & Lindsay (1963)
Shapley and Lindsay ("A Catalogue of Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud", Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol. 6, 1963) give a diameter of 90'' and remark "oval group, mostly resolved."
Sulentic & Tifft (1973)
The RNGC (Sulentic and Tifft 1973) notes that this is a open cluster in the LMC.
Modern observations
Brian Skiff
15cm - mod f spot 1'.2 diam sim to N1987. 140x shows gran plus a dozen *s m14.5+. m9 * on SW. BS, 18Nov1993, LCO.
Contemporary observations
Auke Slotegraaf
2010 February 14-15
Location: "Sterland", Sutherland.
Telescope: "Bertha" 12-inch f/4.8 Dobsonian.
Sky conditions: Dark sky, seeing very good, transparency high.
Star chart: MSA 496
90x: Lies next to the north-eastern star of a prominent Corvus-shaped asterism of 9th mag stars. A perfect cottonball glow, approximately round, gradually brighter to the middle.
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The Messier objects
Dunlop's catalogue
The Bennett objects
The Caldwell list
Named DSOs
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