Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects

'E' stands for Extension of the list of Sandage in 1962ApJ...135..333S, and the roman number 'R' for ring I or II.
Ref:=1990AJ.....99..261C
byCAPUTO F. , CHIEFFI A., CASTELLANI V., COLLADOS M., MARTINEZ ROGER C., PAEZ E.
 Astron. J., 99, 261-272 (1990)
  CCD photometry of stars in the old open cluster NGC 188.
oTable II: stars with format 'NNN.I' or 'NNN.II' are 'NGC 188 1NNN' or 'NGC 188 2NNN' in SIMBAD.
oTable II: <Cl* NGC 188 E I-NNN> N=175, <Cl* NGC 188 E II-NNN> N=232.

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