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NGC 2132
RA 05:55:12
Dec -59° 55.0'
Open cluster |
Discovered by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of
Good Hope with an 18-inch f/13 speculum telescope. He recorded it as "Chief
star of a cluster 8th class of about a dozen bright and some smaller stars."
The RNGC (Sulentic and Tifft 1973) notes that
this is a nonexistent object. Their coded description reads "Not found -
Lindsay"
11x80: An 8th magnitude
star; sprinkled due east of it are five 9th magnitude stars out to about 2
arcminutes. Not like a cluster in binoculars. (suburban skies, seeing 7,
transparency 7, sky darkness 6, lim mag 6.0 (naked eye), 10.7+ (binoculars).) [AS]
6-inch f/8.6 Newt.: With the
sweeper eyepiece (50arcmin field) six brightish stars in the field, in a rough
line, with about another six 9th mag stars also.
With the bright star given
by the Herschel position centred in the K12.5mm eyepiece field of view (23
arcmin, 104x), there are 20 stars in the field, 5 of which are moderately bright
and arranged in an elongated rectangle east-west. The bright star is orange, as
is the bright one to the south-east. (suburban skies, seeing 8, lim mag 6.0
(naked eye)) [AS] |
