- Constellation: Aquila
- Right Ascension: 18h 51m 20.6s
- Declination: +10° 20′ 02″
- Distance: 3,510 ly
NGC 6709 is an open cluster located in the constellation of Aquila (The Eagle). A moderately rich cluster it is classified on the Trumpler scale at a class of IV 2 m. Estimated age of the cluster is 141 million years.
- Details
- Category: Open Clusters
- Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
- Constellation: Cygnus
- Right Ascension: 20h 05m 59s
- Declination: +35° 46.6′
- Distance: 5133 ly
NGC 6871 is a small young cluster located in Cygnus. Easily lost against the dense star fields of Cygnus. The cluster contains less that 50 members, but has several eclipsing binary stars, one being V 453 Cyg. Several dark nebula are also visible in the image.
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- Category: Open Clusters
- Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
- Constellation: Cepheus
- Right Ascension: 22h 54m 20s
- Declination: +60° 48′ 54″
- Distance: 2,930 ly
NGC 7419 is an open cluster located in Cepheus. Heavily reddened by surrounding dust, it is also unique in having a large number of red super-giant stars.
- Details
- Category: Open Clusters
- Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
- Constellation: Auriga
- Right Ascension: 06h 48m 17.(0)s
- Declination: +41° 04′ 4(2)″
- Distance: 1,722 ly
NGC 2281 is a small bright open cluster located in Auriga.
- Details
- Category: Open Clusters
- Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
- Constellation: Cancer
- Right Ascension: 08h 51.3m
- Declination: +11° 49′
- Distance: 2,800 ly
Messier 67 is an open cluster located in the constellation of Cancer. It contains an estimated 500+ stars and is though to be some 4 billion years old.
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- Category: Open Clusters
- Telescope: GSO RC10
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
- Constellation: Lyra
- Right Ascension: 19h 20m 53s
- Declination: +37° 46.3′
- Distance: 13,300 ly
NGC 6791 is an interesting open cluster in Lyra, containing thousands of stars, its one of the older clusters known at 8 billion years. Most clusters tend to disperse over the millennia due to gravitational influences. In addition the stars are metal rich that is to be expected for an old cluster. Old clusters tend to be metal poor in their composition as it usually takes several star birth, death cycles to build up metals. That makes it one of the most studied open clusters.
The bright reddish-orange star above and left of the cluster is U Lyr, a red giant carbon star.
- Details
- Category: Open Clusters
- Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO 2600 MM