NGC 3201

Globular cluster NGC 3201

Image taken by the MPG / ESO 2.2 m telescope
AladinLite
Constellation	Sails of the ship
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension	10 ^h 17 ^m 36.7 ^s
declination	-46 ° 24 ′ 40 ″
Appearance
Concentration class	X
Brightness (visual)	6.8 likes
Angular expansion	18.2 ′
Physical data
Integrated spectral type	F6
Redshift	0.001649 ± 0.000001
Radial velocity	494.0 ± 0.2 km / s
history
discovery	James Dunlop
Discovery date	May 1, 1826
Catalog names
NGC 3201 • C 1015-461 • GCl 15 • ESO 263-SC26 • Dun 445 • GC 2068 • Bennett 44, Caldwell 79, Melotte 99, h 3238

NGC 3201 is a globular cluster in the constellation Sail of the Ship in the southern sky , about 16,000 light-years from the Sun and around 80 light-years across. NGC 3201 has a diameter of 18.2 ′ and an apparent magnitude of 6.8 mag. A team of researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Göttingen came across a black hole of around 4.4 solar masses with the help of the precision spectrograph MUSE .

The object was discovered by James Dunlop on May 1, 1826 .

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