E 1, AM 1

RA:

03:55:02.3

Dec:

-49:36:55

Distance from Sun:

402.0 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

406.2 kly

Apparent Diameter:

1.7 arc min

Brightness:

15.72 mag vis

Radial Velocity:

+116.0 +/- 20.0 km/s

Diameter:

ly

Abs. Mag:

-4.73 Mag vis

Lauberts found this cluster on a photographic plates of the ESO (B) Atlas of the southern Sky, and originally dubbed it ESO 201-10, with remark "GC? Member of LMC?".

No variable stars are known in this remote globular cluster.

Links:

• Extreme Halo Globulars, by Barbara Wilson
• Catalog of Variable Stars in AM1 (E1) (Christine Clement)
• Holger Baumgardt's Fundamental Data for AM 1 (E1)

• E.B. Holmberg, A. Lauberts, H.E. Schuster and R.M. West, 1975. The ESO/Uppsala survey of the ESO (B) atlas of the southern sky. III. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, Vol. 22, pp. 327-402 (December 1975) [ADS: 1975A&AS...22..327H]
• A. Lauberts, 1976. Three distant stellar clusters found on ESO blue survey plates. Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 52, pp. 309-311 (October 1976) [ADS: 1976A&A....52..309L]. Discovery report of 3 Clusters: E1 (aka AM1), E2 (in LMC), and E3.
• Barry F. Madore and Halton C. Arp, 1979. Three new faint star clusters. Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 227, pp. L103-L104 and Plate L3-L6 (15 Jan 1979) [ADS: 1979ApJ...227L.103M]