Messier 75

GPTKB entity

Statements (25)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:star
gptkbp:apparent_magnitude 10.2
-8.5
gptkbp:base_notes noted for its high concentration of stars
gptkbp:contains hundreds of thousands of stars
gptkbp:declination -21° 59′ 00″
gptkbp:discovered_by gptkb:Pierre_Méchain
gptkbp:discovery_year June 24, 1780
gptkbp:distance_from_earth approximately 67,500 light years
gptkbp:exhibition gptkb:Messier_catalog
gptkbp:has a core radius of about 2.5 arcminutes
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Messier 75
gptkbp:image gptkb:Hubble_Space_Telescope
gptkbp:is a target for amateur astronomers
visible in southern hemisphere
one of the more distant globular clusters known
gptkbp:is_part_of gptkb:Milky_Way_galaxy
gptkbp:known_as gptkb:NGC_6864
gptkbp:located_in gptkb:Sagittarius_constellation
gptkbp:metallicity [ Fe/ H] = -1.5
gptkbp:right_ascension 20h 06m 30s
gptkbp:size approximately 100 light years in diameter
gptkbp:type Type II globular cluster
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:M75
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5