Key facts
- Right ascension
- 05 28 06
- Declination
- +35 ° 19 ′ 30 ″
- Distance
- 5,200 ly (1,600 pc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 7 ′
- Radius
- 12 ly
- Estimated age
- 500 million yrs
- Other designations
- C 0524+352, OCl 434
- Constellation
- Auriga
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Distance from Earth
- 1330
- Image
- NGC 1907 PanS.jpg
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- declination component of proper motion
- -3.57
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0552
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-01-17
- apparent magnitude
- 8.2
- Commons category
- NGC 1907
- right ascension
- 82.0208
- declination
- 35.3250
- radial velocity
- 0.1
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.88
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1907 is an open star cluster around 5,200 light years from Earth. It contains around 300 stars and is around 500 million years old. With a magnitude of 8.2, it is visible in the constellation Auriga.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q958905” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.