NGC 5824

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Globular cluster
NGC 5824
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
AladinLite
Constellation wolf
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 15 h 03 m 58.6 s
declination -33 ° 04 ′ 05 ″
Appearance
Concentration class I.
Brightness  (visual) 9.1 mag
Angular expansion 7.4 ′
Physical data
Affiliation Milky Way
distance (108000 ± 9700)  Lj
(33 ± 3  kpc ) 
Age approx. 13 billion years
Metallicity [Fe / H] approx. −1.6
history
discovery James Dunlop
Discovery date May 14, 1826
Catalog names
 NGC  5824 • NGC 5834 • C 1500-328 •  GCl  31 •  ESO  387-SC1 •  GC  4036 •

NGC 5824 is a globular cluster in the constellation Wolf on the border with the constellation Centaur . NGC 5824 has an apparent visual magnitude of 9.1 mag and an angular diameter of 7.4  arc minutes . The distance is about (33 ± 3)  kpc from the Sun and about 25 kpc from the galactic center.

The object was discovered on May 14, 1826 by James Dunlop .

literature

  • RD Cannon, Ram Sagar, MRS Hawkins: CCD photometry of the distant southern globular cluster NGC 5824. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 243 (March 1990), pp. 151-158

Individual evidence

  1. NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c SEDS : NGC 5824
  3. ^ A b Cannon et al .: CCD photometry of the distant southern globular cluster NGC 5824. MNRAS 243 (March 1990), p. 151
  4. ^ A b Duncan A. Forbes, Terry Bridges: Accreted versus in situ Milky Way globular clusters. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 404, No. 3 (May 2010), p. 1209, doi : 10.1111 / j.1365-2966.2010.16373.x
  5. Seligman