Q681480
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open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 43.7
- Declination
- +61 ° 47 ′
- Distance
- 2200 ly (676 pc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 12 arcminute
- Other designations
- Cr 7, C 0040+615
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Distance from Earth
- 657
- Image
- NGC225HunterWilson.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 225
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0068
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.66
- discoverer or inventor
- Caroline Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1783-09-27
- apparent magnitude
- 7.0
- right ascension
- 10.9125
- declination
- 61.7750
- radial velocity
- -28.0
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -5.54
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 225 is an open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is located roughly 2,200 light-years from Earth. It is about 100 to 150 million years old.
The binary fraction, or the fraction of stars that are multiple stars, is 0.52.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q681480” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.