NGC 5824
Globular cluster NGC 5824 |
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Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
AladinLite | |
Constellation | wolf |
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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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
- ↑ NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
- ↑ a b c SEDS : NGC 5824
- ^ A b Cannon et al .: CCD photometry of the distant southern globular cluster NGC 5824. MNRAS 243 (March 1990), p. 151
- ^ 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
- ↑ Seligman