Bar – Chart 9

A handful of small, faint clusters, and one lovely ancient globular cluster, lying on the edge of the bar

Location Of Bar Chart 9

LH OB Associations: –

NGC Objects: NGC 2019

Bar Chart 9

Steve Gottlieb's observations

SL 528 (Open Cluster)

RA 05 30 40.7 Dec -70 13 21 Mag 13.3 Size 1.2′

16″ at 228x: SL 528 appears as a faint, round, hazy glow.

SL 528

SL 542 (Open Cluster)

RA 05 31 20.3 Dec -70 12 54 Mag 12.6 Size 1.0′ x 0.9′

16″ at 228x: SL 542 appears as a fairly bright, round, smooth glow, ~25″ in diameter. No stars are resolved.

SL 542

SL 544 (Open Cluster)

RA 05 31 28.7 Dec -70 05 15 Mag – Size 1.0′ x 0.8′

16″ at 228x: SL 544 appears as a very faint, very small, round glow.

SL 544

BSDL 2196 (Association of Stars)

RA 05 31 44.4 Dec -70 12 06 Mag – Size 0.6′ x 0.5′

16″ at 228x: This extremely faint cluster is easy to locate as it lies between ancient globular NGC 2019 and the bright little cluster SL 542. It appears as an extremely faint, round haze, with no stars resolved.

BSDL 2196

BSDL 2199 (Open Cluster)

RA 05 31 45.8 Dec -70 15 09 Mag – Size 0.6′ x 0.5

16″ at 228x: Guided by mag 11.5 HD 269691 which lies ~50″ NW of BSDL 2199, I picked up a very faint stellar glow.

BSDL 2199

NGC 2019 (Ancient Globular Cluster)

RA 05 31 57.5 Dec -70 09 36 Mag 10.9 Size 1.5′ Age > 10 billion years

16″ at 228x: Another lovely ancient globular cluster. It is bright, round, 45″ in diameter, with a large core and faint halo. The entire cluster is smooth and even and no stars are resolved. Lying against such a bright section of the bar, one wonders what it would look like were it floating in the outer regions of the LMC? (And I must add that many of these ancient globular clusters would be very nice observations were they MW globulars; never mind way out there in the LMC.)