Terzan 5, Terzan 11

RA:

17:48:04.80

Dec:

-24:46:45

Distance from Sun:

22.5 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

3.9 kly

Apparent Diameter:

9.8 arc min

Brightness:

13.85 mag vis

Radial Velocity:

-93.0 +/- 2.0 km/s

Diameter:

ly

Abs. Mag:

-7.42 Mag vis

This globular was discovered by Terzan in 1968 when surveying the Milky Way central region (Terzan 1968). Accidentally, it was rediscovered by the same author, Terzan, in a second survey in 1971 without immediately noting its identity (Terzan 1971).

Links

• Terzan Globular Cluster Observations, by Barbara Wilson
• Catalog of Variable Stars in Terzan 5 (Christine Clement)

• Agop Terzan, 1968. Six nouveaux amas stellaires (Terzan 3-8) dans la region du centre de la Voie lactee et les constellations du Scorpion et du Sagittaire (Six new star clusters (Terzan 3-8) in the region of the center of the Milky Way and the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius). C.R. Acad. Sci. Ser. B, 267, pp. 1245-1248 [ADS: 1968CRB...267.1245T]
• Agop Terzan, 1971. Quatre nouveaux amas stellaires dans la direction de la region centrale de la Galaxie (Four new star clusters [Terzan 9-12] in the direction of the central region of the Galaxy). Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 12, pp. 477-481 [ADS: 1971A&A....12..477T]