Iiro's DeepSky Sketches

Name: NGC 6287	Other name: GCL 54
RA: 17h 5.2m	DEC: -22° 42'
Constellation: OPH
Type: Globular cluster
Magnitude: 9.2
Size: 2.7'
Classification: VII
Description: cB,L,R,gpmCM,rrr
Notes: H II 195
Observer: Iiro Sairanen
Location: Base del Teide (2280m), Tenerife, Spain
Date: 19/20.4.2004 1:48
Instrument: Newton 110/805 mm
Magnification: 107x	Filter: -
Field: 28'	Seeing: 2
Background sky: 2	NE lim mag: 7
Visuality: III	Height: 28°
Weather: +11C, thin highclouds
Description: Slightly elongated in SW-NE direction. N-edge is fainter than S-edge. Unresolved.
Updated: 15.5.2004 13:27