Object: Nonex-open cluster NGC 1790             Constell: AUR

RA: 05h 11.3m           Decl: +52° 04'          Epoch: 2000
Mag: 9 (own)            Size: 8' (own)          Type: III 2 p 
                                                      (own)
Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Jyväskylä, Finland
Date/Time: 2./3.2.1994, 19.15

Telescope: N 205/1000
Magn: 133x              Filter:
Field: 22'              NE Lim.mag: 5.0m
Background sky: 3-4     Seeing: 4-5
Weather: no Moon, but very cold and a lot of ice crystals in
the air.

Brightness: 3           Alt: 75°
Description: About a dozen stars in an oblong (W-E) cluster.
Br10.5m. Total mag. about 9, size 8', Tr-type III 2 p. The
coordinates refers to the brightest star on the E edge. 

Orig. descr J. Herschel (1833): "A group of 8 or 9 stars 10m,
nearly in parallelogram. A pretty object."