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NGC 6568

Open cluster · Sagittarius

NGC 6568

Herschel 400

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Type: Open cluster
Constellation: Sagittarius
Position (J2000): 18h 12m 44s · −21° 37′ 41″
Discovered: by William Herschel in 1786

Pictures: 0
Magnitude: 8.6; visual
Size: 7.8′
Distance: ~3,300 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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