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tag-william-herschel tag-zeta-sagittarii"> <div class="entry-header" ><div class="nv-title-meta-wrap"><small class="nv--yoast-breadcrumb neve-breadcrumbs-wrapper"><span><span><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/">Home</a></span> » <span class="breadcrumb_last" aria-current="page">Messier 69</span></span></small><h1 class="title entry-title">Messier 69</h1><ul class="nv-meta-list"><li class="meta author vcard no-mobile"><span class="author-name fn">by <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/author/admin/" title="Posts by admin" rel="author">admin</a></span></li><li class="meta date posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2015-07-14T23:36:37+00:00" content="2015-07-14">July 14, 2015</time><time class="updated" datetime="2020-11-21T00:00:38+00:00">November 21, 2020</time></li></ul></div></div><div class="nv-content-wrap entry-content"><p>Messier 69 (M69) is a globular star cluster located in the southern constellation <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/sagittarius-constellation/">Sagittarius</a>. The cluster lies at a distance of 29,700 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 8.31. It is one of the fainter globular clusters listed in Messier’s catalogue. Its designation in the New General Catalogue is NGC 6637.<br /> <span id="more-1230"></span><br /> Messier 69 is visible in small binoculars, but not easy to observe from northern locations because it never rises high above the southern horizon. In 10×50 binoculars, M69 appears as a fuzzy star, while small telescopes will show a comet-like shape. Individual stars in the cluster can be resolved in 8-inch and larger telescopes. The best time of year to observe M69 is during the summer.</p> <p>Messier 69 is easy to find as it lies inside the <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/teapot/">Teapot asterism</a> in <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/sagittarius-constellation/">Sagittarius</a>, about 1-2 degrees north of the imaginary line connecting the two bright stars at the base of the <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/teapot/">Teapot</a>: <a href="https://www.star-facts.com/ascella/">Ascella</a>, Zeta Sagittarii, and <a href="https://www.star-facts.com/kaus-australis/">Kaus Australis</a>, Epsilon Sagittarii. The cluster is located at about a third of the distance from Epsilon to Zeta, 1.5 degrees from Epsilon Sagittarii.</p> <figure id="attachment_1244" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1244" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1244" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69.jpg" alt="m69,globular cluster" width="600" height="608" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69.jpg 1011w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-296x300.jpg 296w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-50x50.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1244" class="wp-caption-text">This dazzling image shows the globular cluster Messier 69, or M69 for short, as viewed through the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Globular clusters are dense collections of old stars. In this picture, foreground stars look big and golden when set against the backdrop of the thousands of white, silvery stars that make up M69. Another aspect of M 69 lends itself to the bejewelled metaphor: As globular clusters go, M69 is one of the most metal-rich on record. In astronomy, the term “metal” has a specialised meaning: it refers to any element heavier than the two most common elements in our Universe, hydrogen and helium. The nuclear fusion that powers stars created all of the metallic elements in nature, from the calcium in our bones to the carbon in diamonds. Successive generations of stars have built up the metallic abundances we see today. Because the stars in globular clusters are ancient, their metallic abundances are much lower than more recently formed stars, such as the Sun. Studying the makeup of stars in globular clusters like M69 has helped astronomers trace back the evolution of the cosmos.<br />M69 is located 29 700 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer). The famed French comet hunter Charles Messier added M69 to his catalogue in 1780. It is also known as NGC 6637.<br />The image is a combination of exposures taken in visible and near-infrared light by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, and covers a field of view of approximately 3.4 by 3.4 arcminutes. Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA</figcaption></figure> <p>Messier 69 occupies an area of 9.8 arc minutes, which corresponds to a linear radius of 42 light years. It lies only 1,800 light years from its physical neighbour, the globular cluster <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-70/">Messier 70</a>, which is located at similar distance, about 29,400 light years from Earth. Both clusters lie close to the centre of the Milky Way. M69 is only about 6,200 light years from the galactic centre. Of the three Messier globulars found inside the <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/teapot/">Teapot</a> (<a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-54/">M54</a>, M69 and <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-70/">M70</a>), M69 is the brightest.</p> <p>With a density classification of V, M69 has an average concentration of stars. The cluster’s core is about 0.68 arc minutes in diameter, which corresponds to a linear extension of about 6 light years. M69 has a mass of about 300,000 solar masses. The half-mass radius of M69 is 0.83 arc minutes, or 7.2 light years.</p> <p>Messier 69 appears to be only 7.1 arc minutes in diameter in long exposure images. The cluster’s bright centre occupies an area of only about 3 arc minutes. M69 has a tidal radius of only 72 light years because of its proximity to the galactic centre.</p> <figure id="attachment_1246" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1246" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-Hubble.png"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1246" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-Hubble.png" alt="m69 globular cluster,m69 hubble" width="600" height="600" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-Hubble.png 691w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-Hubble-150x150.png 150w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-Hubble-300x300.png 300w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-Hubble-50x50.png 50w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1246" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 69. Image: NASA & ESA (Hubble Space Telescope)</figcaption></figure> <p>The cluster has very few known variable stars. Only eight variables have been detected, including two <a href="https://www.star-facts.com/mira/">Mira</a>-type stars, red pulsating variables, with periods of about 200 days.</p> <p>Messier 69 is one of the most metal-rich globular clusters known, which means that its stars have a comparatively high abundance of elements heavier than helium and hydrogen. The cluster has about 22 percent of the amount of iron that the Sun has, which is over ten times more than other globular clusters of a similar age. This is explained by the cluster’s proximity to the galactic centre and association with the Milky Way bulge, which ages and evolves significantly faster in terms of heavy elements. All globular clusters found in the galactic bulge are more metal rich than globulars located elsewhere in the galaxy.</p> <p>M69 has a spectral classification of G2 or G3. The cluster is believed to be about 13.06 billion years old, which means that the stars in it formed when the universe was only 700 million years old.</p> <figure id="attachment_1247" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1247" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69-and-M70.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1247" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69-and-M70.jpg" alt="messier 69,messier 70" width="600" height="525" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69-and-M70.jpg 800w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69-and-M70-300x263.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1247" class="wp-caption-text">M69 and M70. Image: Wikisky</figcaption></figure> <p>Messier 69 and <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-70/">Messier 70</a> were discovered by Charles Messier on the night of August 31, 1780. Messier found M69 while looking for an object Nicolas Louis de Lacaille catalogued as Lac I.11 in 1751-52, noting that it “resembles a small nucleus of a comet,” and believed the two were the same object. However, Lacaille’s comet-like object had to be considerably brighter than M69 for the French astronomer to be able to see it through his 0.5-inch telescope, and the position of his object is 1.2 degrees away from M69.</p> <p>Messier offered the following description of the cluster:</p> <blockquote><p>Nebula without star, in <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/sagittarius-constellation/">Sagittarius</a>, below his left arm & near the arc; near it is a star of 9th magnitude; its light is very faint, one can only see it under good weather, & the least light employed to illuminate the micrometer wires makes it disappear: its position has been determined from Epsilon Sagittarii: this nebula has been observed by M. de La Caille, & reported in his Catalog; it resembles the nucleus of a small Comet. (diam 2′)</p></blockquote> <figure id="attachment_1248" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1248" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1248" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69.jpg" alt="messier 69,m69 hubble" width="600" height="600" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69.jpg 1024w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M69-50x50.jpg 50w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1248" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 69. Image: NASA & ESA (Hubble Space Telescope)</figcaption></figure> <p>William Herschel observed M69 in his 20-foot telescope in 1784 and described it as “very bright, pretty large, easily resolvable, or rather an already resolved cluster of minute stars,“ adding that “It is a miniature of the 53d of the Connoissance [<a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-53/">Messier 53</a>].”</p> <p>John Herschel catalogued the cluster as h 3747 in 1834 and later added it to the General Catalogue as GC 4411. He described the object as a “globular cluster; bright; large; round; well resolved; stars from 14th to 16th magnitude.”</p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">FACTS</h3> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Object: Cluster </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Type: Globular </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Class: V </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Designations: Messier 69, M69, NGC 6637, GCl 96, C 1828-323, GCRV 10969, CD-32 14224, CPD-32 5409, HD 170534, MWSC 2936 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Features: One of the most metal-rich globular clusters known </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Constellation: <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/sagittarius-constellation/">Sagittarius</a> </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Right ascension: 18h 31m 23.10s </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Declination: -32°20’53.1” </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Distance: 29,700 light years (9,100 parsecs) </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Age: 13.06 billion years </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Number of stars: 125,000 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Apparent magnitude: +8.31 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Apparent dimensions: 9′.8 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Radius: 42 light years </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Tidal radius: 72 light years </strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 style="text-align: center;">LOCATION</h3> <figure id="attachment_1234" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1234" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-location.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1234" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-location.png" alt="m69 location,find m69,where is messier 69" width="600" height="739" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-location.png 831w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-69-location-244x300.png 244w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1234" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 69 location. Image: IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)</figcaption></figure> </div><div class="nv-tags-list"><span>Tags:</span><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/ascella/ title="Ascella" class=ascella rel="tag">Ascella</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/epsilon-sagittarii/ title="Epsilon Sagittarii" class=epsilon-sagittarii rel="tag">Epsilon Sagittarii</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/gc-4411/ title="GC 4411" class=gc-4411 rel="tag">GC 4411</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/h-3747/ title="h 3747" class=h-3747 rel="tag">h 3747</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/john-herschel/ title="John Herschel" class=john-herschel rel="tag">John Herschel</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/kaus-australis/ title="Kaus Australis" class=kaus-australis rel="tag">Kaus Australis</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/lac-i-11/ title="Lac I.11" class=lac-i-11 rel="tag">Lac I.11</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/m54/ title="M54" class=m54 rel="tag">M54</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/m69/ title="M69" class=m69 rel="tag">M69</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/messier-69/ title="Messier 69" class=messier-69 rel="tag">Messier 69</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/ngc-6637/ title="NGC 6637" class=ngc-6637 rel="tag">NGC 6637</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/nicolas-louis-de-lacaille/ title="Nicolas Louis de Lacaille" class=nicolas-louis-de-lacaille rel="tag">Nicolas Louis de Lacaille</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/sagittarius-constellation/ title="Sagittarius Constellation" class=sagittarius-constellation rel="tag">Sagittarius Constellation</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/teapot/ title="Teapot" class=teapot rel="tag">Teapot</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/william-herschel/ title="William Herschel" class=william-herschel rel="tag">William Herschel</a><a 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