Globular cluster · Sagittarius

M 70

Also known as NGC 6681

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Type

Globular cluster

Constellation

Sagittarius

Position (J2000)

18h 43m 13s · −32° 17′ 31″

Discovered

by Charles Messier in 1780

Pictures

1

Magnitude

9.06

visual

Size

6.6′

Distance

~29,000 ly

Best months

Jun–Aug

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