PWM78 2

RA:

17 : 58 : 39.4

Dec:

-05 : 04 : 21

Distance from Sun:

52.2 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

31.6 kly

Apparent Diameter:

2.0 arc min

Brightness:

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Radial Velocity:

Diameter:

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Listed as globular cluster in the second edition of Uranometria 2000.0 and Archinal and Hynes (2003). Its nature was investigated, and found to be a globular cluster, by Ortolani et.al. (2009).

References:

• Brent A. Archinal and Steven W. Hynes, 2003. Star Clusters. Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond.
• S. Ortolani, C. Bonatto, E. Bica, and B. Barbuy, 2009. Pfleiderer 2: Identification of A New Globular Cluster in the Galaxy. Astronomical Journal, Vol. 138, issue 3, pp. 889-894 (September 2009). [ADS: 2009AJ....138..889O] - [Preprint: arXiv:0907.1225 [astro-ph.GA]]
• J. Pfleiderer, R. Weinberger and R. Mross, 1978. Some New Possible Very Red and Faint Star Clusters. In: Star Cluster Symposium 1977, by B.A. Balàzs (ed.), Budapest. [Four cluster candidates: PWM78 1 to PWM78 4, sometimes referred to as Pfleiderer 1 to 4]