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)

• N. Cacciatore, 1826. Sull' origine del sistema solare. Palermo. P. 18. Also: Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 104, p. 122; No. 113, p. 281; No. 120, p. 429-434 (1827).