Globular cluster · Sagittarius

M 69

Also known as NGC 6637 · NGC 6634

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Type

Globular cluster

Constellation

Sagittarius

Position (J2000)

18h 31m 23s · −32° 20′ 53″

Discovered

by Charles Messier in 1780

Pictures

1

Magnitude

8.31

visual

Size

5.7′

Distance

~29,000 ly

Best months

May–Jul

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.