Open cluster · Sagittarius

NGC 6520

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Type

Open cluster

Constellation

Sagittarius

Position (J2000)

18h 03m 24s · −27° 53′ 10″

Discovered

by William Herschel in 1784

Pictures

1

Magnitude

7.6

visual

Size

5.4′

Distance

~5,100 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.