LMC Observations for Chart 1
| Object | Charts | Notes | Links |
| NGC 2155 05h 58m 33.3s -65º 28' 35" V 12.6 1.8'X1.7' | 30/12/10 135X Larger than nearby 2193 and also brighter. About 2’ across |
Notes prefaced by "PK" are my own observation notes. Some notes by much more experienced and eloquent observers are available on the internet and I will endeavour to provide links to such reports as I track them down and also to include them in the notes on this page. I hope to complete observation notes on all the objects listed on the charts for both Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and to provide links alongside each of these notes to relevant web articles and to the objects on the charts. Hence this section of notes, which will be revised as I expand and improve my observations. If you have your own observation notes on Magellanic Cloud objects, please email me at [email protected] as I would love to post them on this site. Data for NGC and IC objects are from the NGC/IC project and those for other objects are from the ASNSW's presentation of catalogues revised and summarised by Mati Morel. The Digitised Sky Survey images have been downloaded from the Space Telescope Science Institute's web site and are 10'x10' unless the object is larger than this.
| Object | Charts | Notes | Links |
| NGC 2181 OC 06h 02m 43.7s -65º 15' 54" V 13.6 .7'x.7' | 30/12/10 135x Very faint indeed, less than 1’ dia round glow |
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| Object | Chart | Notes | Links |
| NGC 2193 OC 06h 06m 17.9s -65º 05' 57" V 13.4 0.5'x0.5' | 30/12/10 135X Somewhat fainter than neighbouring 2257 and smaller. A faint 1’ circlet of haze |
| Object | Charts | Notes | Links |
| NGC 2257 GC 06h 30m 13.1s -64º 19' 29" V 13.5 Dia 3.4' | 30/12/10 135X Quite a large object, very round, even spread of luminosity but not very bright. Looks about 3’ across. At 175X a delicate glow against velvet black sky. (From Steve Gottlieb’s entry in the NGC/IC project database ““13.1" (2/18/04 - Costa Rica): fairly faint, fairly large, round, 1.5'-2' diameter, broad weak concentration, no resolution. An elongated group of a half dozen mag 10-11 stars oriented NW-SE passes just N of the cluster. This is one of the oldest LMC globular located at the north-east periphery of the cloud, and is comparable in age to galactic globulars, ~10 billion years old.”)
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