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| Description of NGC 5904 |
M5 is, under extremely good conditions, just visible to the naked eye as a faint "star" near the star 5 Serpentis. Binoculars or small telescopes will identify this cluster as non-stellar while larger telescopes will start to show individual stars, of which the brightest are of apparent magnitude 12.2.
M5 was discovered by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch in 1702 when he was observing a comet. Charles Messier found it in 1764 and thought it a nebula without any stars associated with it. William Herschel resolved individual stars in the cluster in 1791, counting roughly 200 of them.
M5 is not to be confused with the much fainter and more distant globular Palomar 5 which is situated nearby in the sky.
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Yong, David; Karakas, Amanda I.; Lambert, David L.; Chieffi, Alessandro; Limongi, Marco
Heavy Element Abundances in Giant Stars of the Globular Clusters M4 and M5
2008, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 689, Issue 2, pp. 1031-1043
(NGC 6121 NGC 5904 ) | | Paper n. 2 |
P. C. C. Freire,
A. Wolszczan,
M. van den Berg,
J. W. T. Hessels
A Massive Neutron Star in the Globular Cluster M5
2008, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 679, Issue 2, pp. 1433-1442.
(NGC 5904 ) | | Paper n. 3 |
Layden, Andrew C.; Sarajedini, Ata; von Hippel, Ted; Cool, Adrienne M.
Deep Photometry of the Globular Cluster M5: Distance Estimates from White Dwarf and Main-Sequence Stars
2005, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 632, Issue 1, pp. 266-276.
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