GCl 104

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GCl 104 is the catalog designation for Messier 70, a dense globular star cluster located in the constellation Sagittarius.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
GCl 104 canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf globular star cluster
age on the order of 10 billion years
alsoKnownAs M70
Messier 70
NGC 6681
angularSize about 7.8 arcminutes
apparentMagnitudeV about 7.9
belongsTo Local Group
bestSeenIn summer
catalog GCl catalogue
Messier catalogue
New General Catalogue
catalogDesignation GCl 104
M70
Messier 70
NGC 6681
clusterConcentration high
clusterType Class V globular cluster
containsObjectType old stars
variable stars
coreCollapseStatus core-collapsed
declination -32° 17′ 31″
discoveredBy Charles Messier
discoveryYear 1780
distanceFromEarth approximately 29,300 light-years
distanceFromSun approximately 8,800 parsecs
galacticLatitude about -12.9 degrees
galacticLongitude about 3.2 degrees
hasCentralConcentration strong
hasColorIndexBminusV about 0.7
hostGalaxy Milky Way
isDense true
locatedIn Galactic bulge
linked to: Milky Way center

Milky Way
locatedInConstellation Sagittarius
locatedNear Galactic center
linked to: Milky Way center
messierNumber 70
metallicityFeH about -1.6
ngcNumber 6681
objectType deep-sky object
observedInWavelength infrared
optical
rightAscension 18h 43m 12s
skyLocationRegion toward the center of the Milky Way
visibleFromHemisphere Southern Hemisphere
low-latitude Northern Hemisphere

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Messier 70 catalogCode GCl 104
GCl 104 catalogDesignation GCl 104