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| Description of NGC 6838 |
Messier 71 (also known as M71 or NGC 6838) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagitta. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Cheseaux in 1746 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects in 1780. It was also noted by Koehler at Dresden around 1775.
M71 is at a distance of about 12,000 light years away from Earth and spans some 27 light years across. The irregular variable star Z Sagittae is a member of this cluster.
M71 was long thought (until the 1970s) to be a densely packed open cluster and was classified as such by leading astronomers in the field of star cluster research due to its lacking a dense central compression (..) However, modern photometric photometry has detected a short "horizontal branch" in the H-R diagram of M71, which is characteristic of a globular cluster.
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Hodder, Philip J. C.; Nemec, James M.; Richer, Harvey B.; Fahlman, Gregory G.
Deep CCD photometry and variable stars in the metal-rich globular cluster M71
Astronomical Journal, vol. 103, Feb. 1992, p. 460
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