Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 1318  ·  NGC 6910  ·  The star Sadr (γCyg)  ·  gamma Cyg nebula
The Rocking Horse Cluster, Don Curry
The Rocking Horse Cluster
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The Rocking Horse Cluster

The Rocking Horse Cluster, Don Curry
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The Rocking Horse Cluster

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This is NGC 6910 in Cygnus it is a small globular cluster with about 66 stars its Y shaped with an outline of a rocking horse and about 3.6 Ly away. Astrometery has the Pixel scale at 1.59 ArcSec /pixel. NGC 6910's brightest star is at a visual magnitude of 9.6

RA is 20h23m08.724s

DEC +40, 44m , 31.178s

Radius 0.275 Degrees

The extreme bright star on the lower right is Sadr a super white giant star in Cygnus with a visual magnitude of 2.2

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The Rocking Horse Cluster, Don Curry

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