Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Crux (Cru)  ·  Contains:  Herschel's Jewel Box  ·  NGC 4755  ·  The star κ Cru  ·  kappa Crucis Cluster
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Jewels in the southern night sky, Herbert Walter
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Jewels in the southern night sky

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Jewels in the southern night sky

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This image shows one of the most beautiful open star clusters of the southern sky  - NGC 4755.
It is an extremely brilliant and famous object when viewed through a binocular or a telescope. The orange star is DU Crucis and a red supergiant, strongly contrasting with the other bright members which are blue supergiants.  The counterpart in the northern sky ist the brilliant open star cluster NGC 457.

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Jewels in the southern night sky, Herbert Walter