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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 6871 is referenced by 578 other articles, and connects out to Cygnus, Lagoon Nebula and molecular cloud.
Vinony files it under Cygnus (constellation), NGC objects and Open clusters.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 20 05 59
- Declination
- +35 ° 46.6 ′
- Distance
- 5133 ly (1574 pc )
- Estimated age
- 9.1 million years
- Other designations
- GC 4548, h 2067, Struve 2630
- Constellation
- Cygnus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Distance from Earth
- 1574
- Image
- NGC 6871 DSS EtoI.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6871
- discoverer or inventor
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
- time of discovery or invention
- 1825-00-00
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 3253
- apparent magnitude
- 5.2
- right ascension
- 301.4958
- declination
- 35.7767
- radial velocity
- -10.5
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.90
- declination component of proper motion
- -6.95
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6871 is a small, young open cluster in the constellation of Cygnus. The cluster has fewer than 50 members, most of which are blue and white stars. It is located 5135 light-years from Earth.
Map showing location of NGC 6871
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6871” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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