NGC 6541

RA:

18:08:02.36

Dec:

-43:42:53.6

Distance from Sun:

24.4 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

6.8 kly

Apparent Diameter:

29.6 arc min

Brightness:

6.30 mag vis

Radial Velocity:

-158.7 +/- 2.3 km/s

Diameter:

ly

Abs. Mag:

-8.52 Mag vis

Nicolò Cacciatore (1780 - 1841) of the observatory in Palermo, Italy discovered this globular cluster on March 19, 1826 (Cacciatore 1826), just a few months before James Dunlop independently found it on July 3 of the same year. Erroneously, Cacciatore first suspected this to be a "new nebula." John Herschel included it in his 1847 catalog as h 3725, and in his "General Catalogue" as GC 4372, which became NGC 6541 in J.L.E. Dreyer's New General Catalogue.

• Catalog of Variable Stars in NGC 6541 (Christine Clement) -- 22 variables known (2016/2024)
• Holger Baumgardt's Fundamental Data for NGC 6541

• N. Cacciatore, 1826. Sull' origine del sistema solare. Palermo. P. 18. Also:
  Wilhelm Olbers, 1826. Auszug aus einem Schreiben des Herrn Doctors und Ritters Olbers an den Herausgeber. Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 5, No. 104, col. 121/122 (August 1826) [ADS 1826AN......5..121O].
  H.C. Schumacher, 1826. Neuer Nebelfleck. Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 5, No. 113, col. 281/282 (December 1826) [ADS: 1826AN......5..281S].
  Nicolo Cacciatore, 1827. Schreiben des Herrn Cacciatore, Directors der Sternwarte in Palermo, an den Hauptmann und Ritter v. Biela. Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 5, No. 120, col. 429/430-433/434 (July 1827) [Bibcode: 1827AN......5..429C].