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Also known as New General Catalogue 7099
amas globulaire de la constellation du Capricorne
Messier 30 is a spherical collection of thousands of old stars located in the constellation Capricornus, held together by gravity. It is one of the notable deep-sky objects cataloged by astronomers and serves as an example of the ancient star clusters that orbit our galaxy.
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In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, M30 is referenced by 419 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Capricornus, Capricornus and New General Catalogue.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1764, August and Capricornus.
Its subject is documented across 52 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Class
- V
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Right ascension
- 21 40 22.12
- Declination
- –23 ° 10 ′ 47.5 ″
- Distance
- 27.14 ± 0.65 kly (8.3 ± 0.20 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 12'.0
- Mass
- 1.6 × 10 M ☉
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = –2.27 dex
- Estimated age
- 12.93 Gyr
- Other designations
- M30, NGC 7099, GCl 122
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- globular cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Distance from Earth
- 0.007
- Radius
- 45
- Image
- Messier 30 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- Commons category
- Messier 30
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 3543
- absolute magnitude
- -7.45
- radial velocity
- -164.0
- discoverer or inventor
- Charles Messier
- time of discovery or invention
- 1764-08-03
- Commons gallery
- Messier 30
- apparent magnitude
- 7.501
- metallicity
- -2.33
- spectral class
- IV
- right ascension
- 325.092167
- declination
- -23.179861
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.61
- declination component of proper motion
- -7.28
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