On Saturday night at CalStar I was shown a globular cluster in NGC 6946 in a 15" Dob.
I had never heard of this object before, and found it astonishing that any globular could be seen
at such a distance. Globulars I've seen in M31 are less remarkable than the brigth glow the one I
was being shown was.
I suspect it is really an HII region, and not a globular cluster. Doing google searches on NGC
6949 shows that it is unusually rich in HII.
Can anyone confirm that there is a bright HII region visible in this galaxy? Or, can anyone point
to some literature describing a bright globular in it, visible from over 15M light years?
Thanks,
Mark
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