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- Catalog code
- HD 170534 catalog: Henry Draper Catalogue
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- NGC 6637 catalog: New General Catalogue
1
- M 69 catalog: Messier object
1
- CD-32 14224 catalog: Cordoba Durchmusterung
1
- CPD-32 5409 catalog: Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
1
- GCRV 10969 catalog: General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities
1
- GCl 96 catalog: Catalogue of star clusters and associations + supplements
1
- Melotte 202 catalog: Melotte Catalogue
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- C 1828-323 catalog: Caldwell catalogue
1
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2936 catalog: Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way. III. 139 new open clusters at high Galactic latitudes
1
- HD 170534 catalog: Henry Draper Catalogue
- Discovered by
- Charles Messier
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Sources- 1.“Celestial Atlas: NGC 6637 (= M69 = GCL 69)”cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc66.htm#6637Retrieved 2017-08-24
- Charles Messier
- Discovered
- August 31, 1780
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Sources- 1.“Celestial Atlas: NGC 6637 (= M69 = GCL 69)”cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc66.htm#6637Retrieved 2017-08-24
- August 31, 1780
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.31 astronomical filter: V band
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Sources- 1.Stated in A Catalog of Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
- 2.Stated in SIMBAD
- 9.32 astronomical filter: B band
1
- 8.295 astronomical filter: g' band
- 7.693 astronomical filter: r' band
- 7.306 astronomical filter: i' band
- 8.31 astronomical filter: V band
- Radius
- 25 ly
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Sources- 1.“Celestial Atlas: NGC 6637 (= M69 = GCL 69)”cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc66.htm#6637Retrieved 2017-08-24
- 25 ly
- Distance from Earth
- 28,700 ly
- Radial velocity
- 39.9 kilometre per second
- 39.1 kilometre per second
- Absolute magnitude
- -7.64
- Metallicity
- -0.7
- -0.84
- -0.9
- -0.78
- Right ascension
- 277.8463 degree
- Declination
- -32.3481 degree
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- 1.59 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- -2.27 milliarcsecond per year
On other databases
3 identifiers linking Messier 69 across the web's reference databases