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CONSTELLATION OF DORADO |
Name: Dorado
Abbreviation: Dor
Meaning: Dolphin Fish
Right Ascension: 5h
Declination: -65º
Area (Degrees squared): 179
Stars with known planets: 1
Bordering Constellations: Caelum, Horologium, Reticulum,
Hydrus, Mensa, Volans, Pictor
Visible at latitudes between +20º and -90º in the southern hemisphere and best at mid-evening during January.
A small constellation, first defined in the 16th century.
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Dorado contains part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy containing about 10,000 million stars, and is rich in deep sky objects, resolved into stars,
clusters and nebulae by small scopes.
Deep Sky Objects:
NGC 1566 - Spiral Galaxy, magnitude 9.40
NGC 1617 - Galaxy, magnitude 10.40
NGC 1755 - Globular Cluster, magnitude 9.90
NGC 1763 - Nebula
NGC 1820 - Open Cluster, magnitude 9.00
NGC 2032 - Cluster associated with Nebulosity and Nebula Cluster, known as the Seagull Nebula
NGC 2070 - Cluster ssociated with Nebulosity, magnitude 8.20, known as the Tarantula Nebula it is a great looped nebulosity lying within the
region the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is the most outstanding nebula after the Orion Nebula.
Numbered Stars with Magnitudes:
1. +4.25
2. +3.60
3. +3.75
4. +4.65
5. +4.30
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