NGC 5824

RA:

15:03:58.63

Dec:

-33:04:05.6

Distance from Sun:

104.6 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

84.4 kly

Apparent Diameter:

6.2 arc min

Brightness:

9.09 mag vis

Radial Velocity:

-27.5 +/- 1.5 km/s

Diameter:

ly

Abs. Mag:

-8.85 Mag vis

This globular cluster was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826 and cataloged by him as Dun 611. Due to some unknown reason, it was not found, observed or cataloged by John Herschel and thus missed that astronomer's General Catalogue: Dunlop's discovery remained unidentified and unacknowledged until Glen Cozens of Australia could verify it in the 1990s. Consequently, E.E. Barnard found it independently in 1884, in time to get it included in J.L.E. Dreyer's NGC.

.. more to come ..

• Catalog of Variable Stars in NGC 5824 (Christine Clement)