NGC 6723
| Kugelsternhaufen NGC 6723 | |
|---|---|
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| Infrarotaufnahme mithilfe des Teleskops VISTA, Bildwinkel 15' × 15' | |
| AladinLite | |
| Sternbild | Schütze |
| Position Äquinoktium: J2000.0, Epoche: J2000.0 | |
| Rektaszension | 18h 59m 33,1s [1] |
| Deklination | −36° 37′ 53″ [1] |
| Erscheinungsbild | |
| Konzentrationsklasse | VII [2] |
| Helligkeit (visuell) | 6,8 mag [2] |
| Helligkeit (B-Band) | 8,69 mag [3] |
| Winkelausdehnung | 13' [2] |
| Physikalische Daten | |
| Zugehörigkeit | Milchstraße |
| Rotverschiebung | (−273 ± 21) · 10−6 [3] |
| Radialgeschwindigkeit | (−81,9 ± 6,3) km/s [3] |
| Entfernung | 28,4 kLj [2] |
| Geschichte | |
| Entdeckung | James Dunlop |
| Entdeckungsdatum | 2. Juni 1826 |
| Katalogbezeichnungen | |
| NGC 6723 • C 1856-367 • GCl 106 • ESO 396-SC10 • Dun 573 • GC 4450 • | |
NGC 6723 ist die Bezeichnung eines Kugelsternhaufens im Sternbild Schütze. NGC 6723 hat eine scheinbare Helligkeit von 6,8 mag und einen Winkeldurchmesser von 13'.
Entdeckt wurde das Objekt am 2. Juni 1826 von James Dunlop.[4]
Hochaufgelöste Aufnahme des Zentrums des Kugelsternhaufens mithilfe des Hubble-Weltraumteleskops,
Bildwinkel 3,5' × 3,5'
Weblinks
Commons: NGC 6723 – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien
- NGC 6723 in „galactic globular clusters database“
- AIDA
- Spektrum.de: Amateuraufnahmen [1]
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It’s full of stars! (potw2333a).jpg
Autor/Urheber: ESO/S. Meingast et al., Lizenz: CC BY 4.0
This Picture of the Week — taken with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory in Chile — might look like a scene from a snowy winter's night, but it’s not. It’s an infrared image of NGC 6723, a globular cluster located about 28 000 light years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. Globular clusters are spherical-shaped groups of stars, tightly bound together by gravity. Their name is derived from the Latin word globulus, meaning small sphere — somewhat misleading given that NGC 6723, as most globular clusters, contains hundred of thousands to millions of stars. So far, astronomers have found more than 150 globular clusters in our galaxy, the Milky Way, with most of them estimated to be at least 10 billion years old and hosting some of the oldest stars in the galaxy.Globular clusters were key to pinpointing our own location within the Milky Way in the early 20th century. American astronomer Harlow Shapley measured the distances to several globular clusters, and noticed that they were arranged in a roughly spherical distribution, but the Sun was not at its centre. He correctly inferred that the heart of the Milky Way lays at the centre of this distribution of globular clusters, placing the Sun in the suburbs of the galaxy.
Autor/Urheber: ESO/S. Meingast et al., Lizenz: CC BY 4.0
This Picture of the Week — taken with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory in Chile — might look like a scene from a snowy winter's night, but it’s not. It’s an infrared image of NGC 6723, a globular cluster located about 28 000 light years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. Globular clusters are spherical-shaped groups of stars, tightly bound together by gravity. Their name is derived from the Latin word globulus, meaning small sphere — somewhat misleading given that NGC 6723, as most globular clusters, contains hundred of thousands to millions of stars. So far, astronomers have found more than 150 globular clusters in our galaxy, the Milky Way, with most of them estimated to be at least 10 billion years old and hosting some of the oldest stars in the galaxy.Globular clusters were key to pinpointing our own location within the Milky Way in the early 20th century. American astronomer Harlow Shapley measured the distances to several globular clusters, and noticed that they were arranged in a roughly spherical distribution, but the Sun was not at its centre. He correctly inferred that the heart of the Milky Way lays at the centre of this distribution of globular clusters, placing the Sun in the suburbs of the galaxy.