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| | IC 1257: A Long-Lost Globular Cluster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | IC 1257 is a faint, compact star cluster that was discovered more than a century ago by Spitaler (1890, AN, 125, 282). |
 | | In September 1996, we obtained new CCD photometry of this cluster with the Palomar 5-m prime focus camera which shows that it is unquestionably a moderately low-luminosity, low-metallicity globular cluster located well beyond the Galactic center. |
 | | Unlike the great majority of non-NGC globular clusters that have been found over the past few decades, IC 1257 is therefore unusual in being neither in the Galactic bulge nor the outermost halo, but rather in the mid-halo region. |
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