Terzan 8

RA:

19:41:44.41

Dec:

-33:59:58.1

Distance from Sun:

85.7 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

63.2 kly

Apparent Diameter:

4.0 arc min

Brightness:

12.40 mag vis

Radial Velocity:

+130.0 +/- 8.0 km/s

Diameter:

ly

Abs. Mag:

-5.07 Mag vis

This cluster is probably a member of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (SagDEG), or Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr dSph), the nearby dwarf galaxy discovered in 1994, which is currently in a close and perhaps final encounter before its tidal disruption, with our Milky Way Galaxy.

Links

• Terzan Globular Cluster Observations, by Barbara Wilson
• Catalog of Variable Stars in Terzan 8 (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]