NGC 1873

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NGC 1873

Summary

NGC 1873 is a stellar association[1]. It draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (stellar_association category, ranking #8 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • NGC 1873 is credited with the discovery of John Frederick William Herschel[3].
  • NGC 1873's image is recorded as NGC 1873 DSS.jpg[4].
  • NGC 1873's instance of is recorded as stellar association[5].
  • NGC 1873's instance of is recorded as asterism[6].
  • NGC 1873's constellation is recorded as Dorado[7].
  • NGC 1873's part of is recorded as Large Magellanic Cloud[8].
  • NGC 1873's Commons category is recorded as NGC 1873[9].
  • NGC 1873's catalog code is recorded as NGC 1873[10].
  • NGC 1873's catalog code is recorded as [SL63] 324[11].
  • NGC 1873's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1837-01-02T00:00:00Z[12].
  • NGC 1873's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.44'}[13].
  • NGC 1873's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122nc7yk[14].
  • NGC 1873's SIMBAD ID is recorded as NGC 1873[15].
  • NGC 1873's New General Catalogue ID is recorded as 1873[16].
  • NGC 1873's right ascension is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+78.4750'}[17].
  • NGC 1873's declination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '-67.3350'}[18].
  • NGC 1873's epoch is recorded as J2000.0[19].

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Works and Contributions

NGC 1873 is credited with the discovery of John Frederick William Herschel[3].

Why It Matters

NGC 1873 draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (stellar_association category, ranking #8 of 16).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . VizieR. wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . A revised and extended catalog of Magellanic system clusters, associations, and emission nebulae. II. The Large Magellanic Cloud. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . A revised and extended catalog of Magellanic system clusters, associations, and emission nebulae. II. The Large Magellanic Cloud. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . A revised and extended catalog of Magellanic system clusters, associations, and emission nebulae. II. The Large Magellanic Cloud. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). NGC 1873. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/ngc-1873
MLA “NGC 1873.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/ngc-1873.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ngc-1873_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{NGC 1873}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ngc-1873}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): NGC 1873 — https://4ort.xyz/entity/ngc-1873 (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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