Type | Open Cluster |
---|---|
Magnitude | 4.6 |
Size | 32' |
Right Ascension | 21h 31' (2000) |
Declination | 48° 25' N |
Constellation | Cygnus |
Description | Cl, vL, P, vlC, *7...10 |
Classification | III 2 p |
Andrew Cooper
Jun 17, 2023 Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%
Big, bright, obvious in the 40mm finder, a coarse collection of 7th to 9th magnitude stars spanning a 30' field and filling the eyepiece with brilliant stars, coarse, fully resolved, located in rich galactic starfield
Andrew Cooper
Jun 27, 2020 Waikoloa Quarry, HI (map)
8x42mm Nikon Prostaff 3S Binoculars @ 8x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%
Bright, a bit more than one field northeast of Deneb, large, coarse, resolved, a conspicuous cluster of 6-8th magnitude stars roughly triangluar in shape and 30' in diameter
Andrew Cooper
Aug 27, 2006 TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
28cm f/10 SCT Gypsy
Large! Bright!! loose and sparse open cluster of a few dozen stars, members stars are quite obvious as they are much brighter than the general galactic background, about ½° in diameter, distribution of the member stars seems fairly random in nature
Andrew Cooper
Nov 15, 1998 Las Cienegas NCA, Sonoita, AZ (map)
20cm f/10 SCT
A surprise! a large (30') and loose cluster of bright stars across the field.
Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885
Grand open cluster
Johann Elert Bode
Oct 27, 1774 Berlin Observatory, Germany (map)
On October 27, 1774, I found in a triangle west and east with the two stars Pi at the tail of Cygnus a small star cluster, the position of which relative to the given stars I determined with the heliometer, as shown in the 6th figure.
Charles Messier
Jan 3, 1760
Cluster of stars near the tail of the Swan; one can see them with an ordinary telescope of 3.5 feet.― Connaissance des Temps, 1781
Barnard 362 | g Cygni | HD 204153 |
HD 204411 | HD 205314 | Minkowski 1-79 |
NGC 7067 | NGC 7071 | NGC 7082 |
Patchick 6 | PK93+2.1 | PK93-0.1 |
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