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NGC6715

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 18:55:3.3
Declination: -30:28:40
Constellation: SGR
Visual Magnitude: 7.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Messier
Year of discovery: 1778
Discovery aperture: 3.5

Observational


Summary description: globular, vB, L, R, g, smbM, rrr, st 15
Sub-type: III

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6715 17.5" (8/2/86): very bright, increases to a sharp bright core, fairly large. Five brighter stars easily visible around the edges are probably field stars. The cluster has a mottled, grainy appearance but there was no additional resolution. Visible in the 16x80 finder. Brightest members only V = 15.5. 15x50mm IS binoculars (8/3/11): easily visible as a small fairly faint glow. Lies close to the center of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (SagDEG discovered in 1994) and is possibly the remnant nucleus of the disrupted galaxy. This is also the most distant Messier globular, roughly 87,000 light years away.