NGC 2419

Globular Cluster NGC 2419

(= H I.218

= Caldwell 25),

class II,

in Lynx

The Intergalactic Wanderer

Right Ascension	07 : 38.1 (h:m)
Declination	+38 : 53 (deg:m)
Distance	295.0 (kly)
Visual Brightness	10.4 (mag)
Apparent Dimension	4.1 (arc min)

This globular cluster is one of the most remote globulars of our

Milky Way galaxy, both from our

solar system and from the galactic center, at nearly 300,000

light years from each. It is thus nearly double as far out as the

Large Magellanic Cloud. As it is intrinsically

luminous (with Mag -9.48 according to Harris’ database, it ranks on place

four after Omega Centauri, southern NGC 6388 in

Scorpius, and M54 in absolute brightness),

it is however in the range of medium-sized amateur telescopes,

and the most remote Milky Way object visible in moderately-sized scopes.

From the galactic center, it is lying “beyond us”, so that we see it in

the scarcely populated hemisphere of the galactic anticenter (as one of

the 13 globulars there).

NGC 2419 is approaching us at about 20 km/sec.

Our image was obtained by the

University of Arizona Astro Club.

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Hartmut Frommert

([email protected])

Christine Kronberg

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Last Modification: 12 Mar 1998, 12:50 MET