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Old 30-12-2006, 09:39 AM
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Sir John's Globulars

Sir John Herschel found these 5 globular clusters using an 18.5" scope from Cape Town in 1834-38. John also found some GC in the LMC & SMC. The brightest in this list is N6558 which is only 43' east of the GC N6569.
Lacaille and Dunlop had already discovered nearly all of the southern globulars.

NGC Const Type Vmag Size RA(2000) DEC(2000)
1049 For GC 12.6 0.8' 02h 39m 48.1s -34º 15' 30"
6325 Oph GC 10.2 4.3' 17h 17m 59.2s -23º 45' 57"
6380 Sco GC 11.5 3.9' 17h 34m 28.3s -39º 04' 11"
6453 Sco GC 10.2 3.5' 17h 50m 51.6s -34º 35' 55"
6558 Sgr GC 8.6 3.7' 18h 10m 18.3s -31º 45' 49"

Reference Bob Erdmann
http://www.ngcic.org/public_HCNGC/HCNGC.htm
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