| Globular
Cluster
NGC 7089 Visual Magnitude: 6.6 Apparent Diameter: 16' Distance: 49000 ly Minimum requirements to view: any telescope and suburban sky |
M2 is a nice globular star cluster. Located in Aquarius about 5o to the north of Beta Aqr, M2 appears as a 7th magnitude fuzzy star in binoculars and small telescopes. A 6-inch scope will resolve many of the stars, but it takes a larger aperture and a night of good seeing to resolve stars all the way to the rich core.
This cluster contains hundreds of thousands of stars within a diameter of 150 light years.
The view in a 6" at 50x.
North is down and east is right.
This view is taken from
the Digital Sky Survey and shows a 1/2o
field.
| Millennium
Star Atlas Vol III Chart 1286
Sky Atlas 2000 Chart 17 Uranometria 2000 Vol I&II Chart 255 |
