Basic object information
Name: M 79
Type of object: Globular cluster
Magnitude: 8.4
Size: 8.7'
Object classification: 5
Description: pL,eRi,eC,rrr
Notes: Stars vF
Catalog position for epoch J2000.0
Right ascension: 05h 24m 10.6s
Declination: -24° 31' 27"
Constellation: Lepus
Observer: Iiro Sairanen
Obs. place: Base del Teide (2280m above sea level), Tenerife, Spain
Date/Time: 19/20.4.2004 21:53
Telescope: Newton 110/805mm
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Magn: 107x |
Filter: |
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Field: 28' |
NE Lim.mag: 7,0 |
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Background sky: 2 |
Seeing: 2 |
Height: 10°
Visuality: II
Weather: +11˚C, thin highclouds
Occasionally granular, no individual star excepting few Milky Way's stars.