Kodaira 1

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18:12:26.7

Dec:

-12:04:12

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This object was announced as an obscured globular cluster candidate (Kodaira 1983). However, it was not verified since, and from negative results with deep CCD and IR imaging by S. Djorgovski, Djorgovski and Meylan (1993) concluded it probably doesn't exist. Kodaira et.al. (1995) found that it is most probably a heavily reddened (7-8 mag) star of spectral type M5-8 III.

References

• S. Djorgovski and G. Meylan, 1993. The Galactic Globular Cluster Systems - a List of the Known Clusters and Their Positions. In: Structure and Dynamics of Globular Clusters. Proceedings of a Workshop held in Berkeley, California, July 15-17, 1992, to Honor the 65th Birthday of Ivan King. Editors, S.G. Djorgovski and G. Meylan; Publisher, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 50, San Francisco, California, pp. 325-336 [ADS: 1993sdgc.proc..325D]
• K. Kodaira, 1983. IAUC No. 3846 [ADS: 1983IAUC.3846....2K].
• Keiichi Kodaira, Tom Greene, and Alan Tokunaga, 1995. On the stellar nature of an infrared object, Kodaira 1. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 27-29 [ADS: 1995PASJ...47...27K]
• R.F. Webbink, 1985. Structure parameters of galactic globular clusters. In: Dynamics of star clusters; Proceedings of the Symposium, Princeton, NJ, May 29-June 1, 1984. Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co., pp. 541-577 [ADS: 1985IAUS..113..541W]