Fornax Dwarf and its Globular Clusters (Jim Fordice)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Fornax (For) · Contains: HD16426 · HD16492 · HD16588 · HD16690 · HD16714 · HD16715 · HD16917 · HD16949 · HD17060 · NGC 1049 · PGC 10074 · PGC 10179 · PGC 132108 · PGC 138536 · PGC 175437 · PGC 199549 · PGC 199580 · PGC 652265 · PGC 652568 · PGC 652897 · PGC 652903 · PGC 653158 · PGC 653428 · PGC 653483 · PGC 653548 · PGC 653555 · PGC 653965 · PGC 654000 · PGC 654044 · PGC 654124 · And 73 more.

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Fornax Dwarf and its Globular Clusters

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Fornax Dwarf and its Globular Clusters

The Fornax Dwarf is an elliptical galaxy discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley while examining photographic plates taken with the Bruce refractor at the Boyden Observatory in South Africa.

The Fornax Dwarf is a satellite of the Milky Way. It has six globular clusters (GCs) which are marked on the image. I have separately imaged each GC. The largest GC, NGC 1049 (Fornax 3), was discovered about a century before the galaxy.

It is receding from the Milky Way at 53 km/s. It is mainly made up of population II stars.

I obtained the calibrated lights frames used to create the final image from Telescope Live. The frames were imaged by the AUS-2-CMOS Telescope at the Heaven’s Mirror Observatory in Australia.

Distance: 466,000 LY
Position w.r.t. core of galaxy: Below the disc and away from the core of the Milky Way.

Rarely Imaged Small DSOs
Globular Star Clusters
Objects of the South - negative declination only

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RA (center)	02h39m48s.49
RA (top/left)	02h44m06s.48
RA (top/right)	02h36m21s.25
RA (bottom/right)	02h35m27s.39
RA (bottom/left)	02h43m19s.29

Dec (center)	-34°30′39″.2
Dec (top/left)	-34°01′09″.6
Dec (top/right)	-33°47′23″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-34°59′41″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	-35°13′39″.2

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