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'''The Running Chicken Cluster''' can be found by navigating to '''IC 2944 HG 10004'''. | '''The Running Chicken Cluster''' can be found by navigating to '''IC 2944 HG 10004'''. | ||
== Messier 6 == | == Messier 6 (NGC 6405) == | ||
[[File:Messier 6.png|thumb|220x220px|Messier 6]] | [[File:Messier 6.png|thumb|220x220px|Messier 6]] | ||
Also known as the Butterfly Cluster, or NGC 6405, is an open cluster of some 80 stars in the constellation of Scorpius. Its name derives from the vague resemblance of its shape to a butterfly. Most of the bright stars in this cluster are hot, blue B-type stars but the brightest member is a K-type orange giant star, the B-type binary '''V970 Scorpii.''' | Also known as the Butterfly Cluster, or NGC 6405, is an open cluster of some 80 stars in the constellation of Scorpius. Its name derives from the vague resemblance of its shape to a butterfly. Most of the bright stars in this cluster are hot, blue B-type stars but the brightest member is a K-type orange giant star, the B-type binary '''V970 Scorpii.''' | ||
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'''NGC 6530''' is an extremely young open cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It has a diameter of 10 arc minutes, and class G with stars as bright as 7th magnitude. It exists within Nebula Messier 8, the '''Lagoon Nebula'''. | '''NGC 6530''' is an extremely young open cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It has a diameter of 10 arc minutes, and class G with stars as bright as 7th magnitude. It exists within Nebula Messier 8, the '''Lagoon Nebula'''. | ||
== | '''NGC 6530''' can be found by navigating to '''NGC 6530 CDZ 99'''. | ||
== Messier 34 (NGC 1039) == | |||
[[File:Messier 34.png|thumb|220x220px|Messier 34]] | |||
Also known as M 34, or NGC 1039, is an open cluster in the constellation Perseus. The age of this cluster lies between the respective ages of the Pleiades open cluster at 100 million years and the Hyades open cluster at 800 million years. It is approx. 1,800 LYs from Sol. | |||
'''Messier 34''' can be found by navigating to '''V823 Persei'''. | |||
== '''G'''allery == | |||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
Trumpler_16.png|Trumpler 16 | Trumpler_16.png|Trumpler 16 | ||