Alessi J12130-6242

RA:

12 : 13 : 02

Dec:

-42 : 42.4

Distance from Sun:

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Apparent Diameter:

0.8 arc min

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Bruno Alessi announced the discovery of this object in 1998 as a possible cluster, lying in a rich Milky Way field just east of open cluster NGC 4184 in Crux, and resembling in appearance a remote and obscured globular cluster. Alessi J12130-6242 is listed as a globular cluster candidate in Archinal and Hynes (2003). However, these authors speculate that it might be just a Milky Way "mottling," or fluctuation of the Milky Way background.

References:

• Brent A. Archinal and Steven J. Hynes, 2003. Star Clusters. Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond.