Terzan Catalogue


The Terzan Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of globular clusters.

Overview

The Terzan Catalogue consists of 11 globular clusters discovered by Agop Terzan using infrared observations made at Lyon Observatory in France during the 1960s and early 1970s. Most of the globular clusters are located in the constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpius, near the Milky Way's Galactic Center; Terzan 7 and Terzan 8 are most likely part of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy. Although all of the Terzan Catalogue objects were originally presumed to be globular clusters, there have been recent suggestions that some of them may in fact be open clusters.
Since the original Terzan 11 is a duplicate of Terzan 5, more recent versions of the catalogue have renamed the original Terzan 12 as Terzan 11.
The catalogue is based on scientific papers published by Agop Terzan in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1971.

List of clusters

List of star clusters in the Terzan Catalogue:
ObjectConstellationRight ascension
Declination
Apparent magnitudeDiameter
Terzan 1Scorpius13.92.4'
Terzan 2Scorpius14.290.7'
Terzan 3Scorpius12.04.0'
Terzan 4Scorpius16.00.7'
Terzan 5Sagittarius13.852.1'
Terzan 6Scorpius13.851.2'
Terzan 7Sagittarius12.06.0'
Terzan 8Sagittarius12.44.4'
Terzan 9Sagittarius16.01.5'
Terzan 10Sagittarius14.9b. d.
Terzan 11Sagittarius16.41.5'