| NGC1786 | |
|---|---|
| 👁 A cluster of stars in space. It’s bright in the centre, where the stars are densely packed together in the cluster’s core, and grows dimmer and more diffuse out to the edges, as the stars give way to the dark background of space. A few orange stars are spread across the cluster, but most are pale, bluish-white points of light. Three large stars with cross-shaped spikes around them lie between us and the cluster. NGC 1786 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Class | II[1] |
| Constellation | Dorado |
| Right ascension | 04h 59m 07.8150s[2] |
| Declination | –67° 44′ 42.804″[2] |
| Distance | 160,000 ly (49,000 pc)[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 10.9[1] |
| Apparent dimensions (V) | 1.6′[1] |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Other designations | ESO 056-SC 039[2] |
| See also: Globular cluster, List of globular clusters | |
NGC 1786 is a globular cluster in the constellation Dorado, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 20 December 1835.[3][1]
NGC 1786 has 65 variable stars that have been identified. Among them are 53 RR Lyrae variables, along with 3 classical Cepheids, a single Type II Cepheid, 1 anomalous Cepheid, 2 eclipsing binary systems, 3 Delta Scuti/SX Phoenicis variables, and 2 stars with unidentified variability classifications.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue Objects: NGC1786". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Results for object NGC 1786". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. NASA and Caltech. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
- ^ Herschel, J. F. W (1864). "Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 154: 1–137. Bibcode:1864RSPT..154....1H. doi:10.1098/rstl.1864.0001.
- ^ Kuehn, Charles A.; Smith, Horace A.; Catelan, Márcio; Pritzl, Barton J.; De Lee, Nathan; Borissova, Jura (2012). "Variable Stars in Large Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters. II. NGC 1786". The Astronomical Journal. 144 (6): 186. arXiv:1210.5815. Bibcode:2012AJ....144..186K. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/6/186.
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