Terzan 8

RA:

19:41:45.0

Dec:

-34:00:01

Distance from Sun:

84.8 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

62.3 kly

Apparent Diameter:

4.0 arc min

Brightness:

12.40 mag vis

Radial Velocity:

Diameter:

Abs. Mag:

This cluster is probably a member of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (SagDEG), or Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr dSph), the nearby dwarf galaxy discovered in 1994, which is currently in a close and perhaps final encounter before its tidal disruption, with our Milky Way Galaxy.

Links

• Terzan Globular Cluster Observations, by Barbara Wilson

• Agop Terzan, 1968. Six nouveaux amas stellaires (Terzan 3-8) dans la region du centre de la Voie lactee et les constellations du Scorpion et du Sagittaire (Six new star clusters (Terzan 3-8) in the region of the center of the Milky Way and the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius). C.R. Acad. Sci. Ser. B, 267, 1245-1248