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NGC 2015
NGC 2015, ESO 56-147, LH 74, SL 557, h 2901, GC 1218
Type: association of stars
Mag: B=10.56, V=10.43
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 "the general middle of a cluster of loose stars 11..16th mag. It is rich, and fills the whole field."
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 80'' and remark "few fairly bright scattered stars."
Sulentic & Tifft (1973)
The RNGC (Sulentic and Tifft 1973) notes that this is a cluster+nebulosity in the LMC.
Contemporary observations
Auke Slotegraaf
2010 February 12-13
Date: 2010 February 12/13 (first session).
Location: "Sterland", Sutherland.
Telescope: "Bertha" 12-inch f/4.8 Dobsonian.
Sky conditions: Dark sky, seeing very good, transparency high.
Star chart: MSA 484
The first object in tonight's sweep, which started from delta Dor working southward.
45x, 115x: NGC 2015 is a pretty faint, small (1.2'), round, even nebulous glow, which doesn't grow brighter to the middle. South-east 10' is a small triangle of pB stars; NGC 2015 is slightly larger than its shortest side.
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