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IC 4499
ESO022-SC005, GCL-30
RA 15:00:18
Dec -82°13.0'
Globular
cluster |
This globular cluster was discovered by
Delisle Stewart on photographic plates taken with the 24-inch Bruce refractor at
the Arequipa station of Harvard College Observatory. It is described as: "cluster,
very faint, 4' diameter; 2 faint stars in nebulosity?"
Hartung notes: "This globular, missed by
John Herschel, was discovered photographically from Arequipa. It is a faint
irregularly round haze nearly 3' across in a field of rather faint stars, and
three very faint stars in it are probably superposed. On a clear dark night it
is not difficult for 30cm because of its size, but 20cm is hardly enough."
Sanford calls this "a fairly large but
faint globular cluster ... which is an 11th magnitude ball of faint stars about
5 arcminutes in diameter. It can be located just North of Pi 2 Octantis, on the
Apus side of the constellation border."
ASV Journal Vol 24 No 3 June 1971: "requires
large telescope." |
