Key facts
- Class
- IV
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Right ascension
- 17 10 10.42
- Declination
- −26 ° 34 ′ 54.2 ″
- Distance
- 31000 ly (9500 pc)
- Apparent dimensions v
- 7.9 ′ × 7.9 ′
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = −1.99 dex
- Other designations
- GCl 55, VDBH 215
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Distance from Earth
- 0.009
- Image
- NGC 6293 hst 12516 R814G555B390.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 6293
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-05-24
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2539
- apparent magnitude
- 6.999
- right ascension
- 257.543417
- declination
- -26.581722
- radial velocity
- -146.2
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- -1.73
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.26
- declination component of proper motion
- -5.14
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6293 is a globular cluster located in the constellation Ophiuchus. Its Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class is IV. It was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift on 8 July 1885. Like many other globular clusters, its distance is not well known; it may be anywhere from 31000 to 52000 light-years away from Earth.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1368277” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.