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NGC6341

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 17:17:7.3
Declination: +43:8:13
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 6.5

Historic Information


Discoverer: Bode
Year of discovery: 1777
Discovery aperture:

Observational


Summary description: globular, vB, vL, eCM, rrr, st S
Sub-type: IV

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6341 18" (7/24/06): at 435x the cluster overfilled the 9' field with several hundred stars resolved stars. The 3' to 4' core itself was highly resolved into roughly 100 densely packed stars (including a very compact knot of stars) with long streams of stars appearing to spiral out from the core. 17.5": very bright, large, very high resolution of 150-200 stars many in curving lanes. A tight knot of stars in the core is resolved. 13" (6/29/84): highly resolution over entire disc, dozens of stars resolved in bright core. A bright knot in the core is partially resolved at 416x. 8" (7/9/80): very bright, moderately large. Well resolved into many long streamers from the small bright nucleus and some core resolution.