M30

The astronomical object of the Catalog Messier number 30 (named M30 or NGC 7099 ) is a globular Amas located in the Constellation of the Capricorne. Charles Messier discovered it in 1764.

It is about a dense cluster, located at approximately 26 000 light-years of the Solar system, with 75 light-years an approximate diameter. The cluster as a whole approaches the solar system at the speed of 164 km/sec.

One observed a dozen variable stars there, and its most brilliant star S, giant reds, have a Magnitude connect of +12,1.

As for the majority of the globular clusters that it observed and includes in its catalog, Charles Messier initially described it like a “ nebulous round ”, which for him did not contain any star. William Herschel will be the first to solve it out of distinct stars in 1784.

External bonds

Messier 30, page of '' SEDS ''

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