Ophiuchus cluster
Discovered on Palomar Schmidt IV-N Plates
during Hidden Globular Cluster Survey
l=0.5° b=+9.3 °(Near the Galactic Center)
AB =2.5 mag
Nearby rich cD cluster (V=8400 km/s)
The 2nd brightest X-Ray cluster
after Perseus cluster
May be a Key cluster
for a large-scale structure
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