Niccolò Cacciatore

Obituary: MNRAS 6, 29 (1844); Annali Civili [of Sicily], 49, 72 (1841)

Cacciatore discovered the globular cluster NGC 6541 in Corona Australis, using a small refractor at Palermo Observatory. Dunlop found the object independently in 1826 at Paramatta (D 473).

D N NI Y M D Ap I T Observer Con Type S Author Title Source
1 N 6541 1826 3 19 3,0 Rr v Dunlop 2.6.1826 CRA III 5 Cacciatore, N. Neuer Nebelfleck  AN [113] 5, 281 (1827)

 

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