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Wed, 09 Jul 2025
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Dominic Ford, Editor
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Across much of the world, the bright globular cluster NGC 6752
(mag 5.4) in Pavo
will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks.
On 9 July it
will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight
local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.
From Los Angeles , however, it is not observable because it lies so far south that it never rises above the horizon.
At a declination of 59°58’S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 10°N.
At magnitude 5.4, NGC6752 is
too faint to be seen with the naked eye from any but the very darkest sites, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.
The position of NGC6752 is as follows:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Magnitude | Angular Size |
| NGC6752 | 19h10m50s | 59°58’S | Pavo | 5.4 | 13’12” |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
The sky
on 9 Jul 2025
Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
Image credit
© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)
Author: Space and Astronomy News
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