| NGC5466 / Globular Cluster, type XII |
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| R.A. | 14h 05m 30.0s (2000.0) |
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| Dec. | +28° 32' 00" (2000.0) |
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| Apparent Size | 5.0' |
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| Real Size | 81 light yrs. |
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| Magnitude | 10.0 |
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| Distance | 47 thousand light yrs. |
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NGC5466 is a very dimmed globular cluster in west region of Bootes.
It's difficult to catch the globular cluster with finder scopes, you can use a way of searching that firstly find out a bright globular cluster of M3 in Canes Venatici,
and next tracing about 5 degrees east from M3. NGC5466 has a visual magnitude of 10, you might need over 4 inch telescopes to detect it clearly.
The globular has fairly sparse stellar density; long exposed films can easily resolve member stars around central region.
This star field is very far from the Milky Way, and a distance of the globular is estimated about 47 thousand light years.
The globular cluster is positioned apart from the galactic disk, to say, lying at a remote region of the Galaxy.
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