Iiro's DeepSky Sketches

Name: NGC 6401	Other name: GCL 73
RA: 17h 38.6m	DEC: -23° 55'
Constellation: OPH
Type: Globular cluster
Magnitude: 9.5
Size: 1'
Classification: IX
Description: pB,pL,R,*12F inv
Notes: H I 44
Observer: Iiro Sairanen
Location: Base del Teide (2280m), Tenerife, Spain
Date: 18/19.4.2004 2:20
Instrument: Newton 110/805 mm
Magnification: 107x	Filter: -
Field: 28'	Seeing: 3
Background sky: 2	NE lim mag: 7
Visuality: III	Height: 17°
Weather: +9°C, dry and good
Description: Quite faint globular. Starlike nucleus. No stars resolved.
Updated: 15.5.2004 13:16