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Short Object description:
NGC 6352 is a rather rarely photographed globular
cluster in the constellation Ara, which was discovered by James Dunlop on May
14, 1826. Like Messier 55,
it belongs to the concentration class XI and can the cluster's centre can be
easily resolved. At 18,000 lightyears, NGC 6352 is as far away as M 55, but NGC
6352 has only about one third of it's starmass and appears much smaller with a
diameter of 7 arc minutes. The absolute diameter is approximately 37
lightyears.
The seeing at imaging time was about 3.0'' (FWHM). A
high-resolution image of the cluster's centre was taken with the Hubble
telescope and
can be found here |
