Messier 107
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Messier 107 or M107, also known as NGC 6171 or the Crucifix Cluster, is a very loose globular cluster in a very mildly southern part of the sky close to the equator in Ophiuchus, and is the last such object in the Messier Catalogue.
Observational history, namings and guide
It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in April 1782, then independently by William Herschel in 1793. Herschel's son, John, in his 1864 General Catalogue, described it as a "globular cluster of stars, large, very rich, very much compressed, round, well resolved, clearly consisting of stars".[1] It was not until 1947 that Helen Sawyer Hogg added it and three other objects found by Méchain to the modern Catalogue, the latter having contributed several of the suggested observation objects which Messier had verified and added.[2] The cluster is to be found 2.5° south and slightly west of the star Zeta Ophiuchi.[1]
Properties
M107 is close to the galactic plane and about 20,900 light-years from Earth[3] and Script error: No such module "convert". from the Galactic Center.[4] Its orbit is partly as far out as the galactic halo, as is between Script error: No such module "convert". from the Galactic Center, the lower figure, the "perigalactic distance" sees it enter and leave the galactic bar.[5]
It is an Oosterhoff type I[6] cluster with a metallicity of −0.95[7]Template:Efn and it conforms with the bulk of the halo population.[4] There are 22 known RR Lyrae variable stars in this cluster and a probable SX Phoenicis variable.[8]
Gallery
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The globular star cluster Messier 107 image taken by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
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Map showing the location of M107
See also
References and footnotes
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External links
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