NGC 2419

Globular Cluster NGC 2419 (= H I.218), class II, in Lynx

The Intergalactic Wanderer

[NGC 2419, UA Astro Club]
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)

Discovered by William Herschel in 1788.

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.

Caldwell 25 in Patrick Moore's list.

  • SIMBAD Data of NGC 2419
  • Observing Reports for NGC 2419 (IAAC Netastrocatalog)

    Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org)
    Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

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