Globular Cluster NGC 6229

NGC 6229
NGC 6229: Section of the Sloan Digitized Sky Survey [147]

History

On 12 May 1787 the German-British astronomer William Herschel found an object looking through his 18.7 inch reflecting telescope that he thought was a planetary nebula. He cataloged it as IV 50 and described it as follows: «very bright, round, 4' diameter, almost equally bright, with a faint resolvable margin.» [464] His son John cataloged the object in 1864 as GC 4244. The Swedish astronomer Per Magnus Herman Schultz using the 9.6" Steinheil refractor at Uppsala Observatory was probably the first one who identified the object as globular cluster. Dreyer mentioned hin when he added the object in 1888 as globular cluster with the designation NGC 6229. [277, 313]

Physical Properties

Revised+Historic NGC/IC, Version 22/9, © Dr. Wolfgang Steinicke [277]
DesignationNGC 6229
TypeGCL (IV)
Right Ascension16h 46m 58.9s
Declination+47° 31' 42"
Diameter4.5 arcmin
Visual magnitude9.4 mag
Metric Distance30.500 kpc
Dreyer Descriptionglobular, vB, L, R, disc & F border, r
Identification, RemarksGCL 47

Finder Chart

The globular cluster NGC 6229 is located in the constellation Hercules. The best observation time is from March to October.

Chart Globular Cluster NGC 6229
Globular Cluster NGC 6229 in constellation Hercules. Chart created using SkySafari 6 Pro and STScI Digitized Sky Survey. [149, 160]

Visual Observation

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References

147Aladin Lite; aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite (2020-12-23)
149SkySafari 6 Pro, Simulation Curriculum; skysafariastronomy.com
160The STScI Digitized Sky Survey; archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
277«Historische Deep-Sky Kataloge» von Dr. Wolfgang Steinicke; klima-luft.de/steinicke (2021-02-17)
313«A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart., revised, corrected, and enlarged» Dreyer, J. L. E. (1888); Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 49: 1–237; Bibcode:1888MmRAS..49....1D
464«Catalogue of a second thousand of new nebulae and clusters of stars; with a few introductory remarks on the construction of the heavens» William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1 January 1789; DOI:10.1098/rstl.1789.0021