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M 23

Open cluster · Sagittarius

M 23

Also known as NGC 6494

Messier 23

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Type: Open cluster
Constellation: Sagittarius
Position (J2000): 17h 57m 05s · −18° 59′ 07″
Discovered: by Charles Messier in 1764

Pictures: 0
Magnitude: 5.5; visual
Size: 16.8′
Distance: ~2,000 ly
Best months: May–Jul

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.

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