NGC 6208
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| Constellation | altar |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 49 m 28.2 s |
| declination | -53 ° 43 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance
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| classification | II1m |
| Brightness (visual) | 7.2 likes |
| Angular expansion | 18.0 ′ |
| Physical data
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| Radial velocity | −32 km / s |
| distance | approx. 3100 ly (939 pc ) |
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| Discovered by | James Dunlop |
| Discovery time | July 28, 1826 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6208 • Cr 313 • ESO 179-SC14 • GC 4232 • h 3646 • OCL 964 | |
NGC 6208 is an open cluster (type definition "II1m") in the constellation Altar and about 940 Parsecs from Earth. It was discovered on July 28, 1834 by James Dunlop with a 9-inch reflecting telescope, which produced “a round, faint nebula, about 1 ′ diameter, with three small stars in it; a bright star south of the nebula "noted.
During two observations with an 18-inch reflector telescope in 1847, John Herschel noted “a pretty insulated milky way cluster, class VII of large stars; 8 ′ diameter; stars 9..12th magnitude "and" cluster class VII; rich; not much compressed in the middle; more than fills field; stars 11.14th likes but chiefly small “.