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NGC 1986

star cluster

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1046347 ↗
Source-derived summary

NGC 1986 (also known as ESO 56-SC134) is an open cluster which is located in the Mensa constellation which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered by James Dunlop on September 27, 1826. It has an apparent magnitude of 11.31 and its size is 2.80 by 2.40 arc minutes.

Editorial summary

“NGC 1986” enters the record as star cluster. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what star and cluster can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1826—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around star and cluster.
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Why this record matters

“NGC 1986” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, star and cluster provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1046347. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 1826.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “NGC 1986”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow NGC 1986 primary sources, NGC 1986 archive and star research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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This entry incorporates text from “NGC 1986” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.