Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Vulpecula (Vul)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6802
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Open Cluster NGC6802 in Vulpecula, Mau_Bard
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Open Cluster NGC6802 in Vulpecula

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Open Cluster NGC6802 in Vulpecula, Mau_Bard
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Open Cluster NGC6802 in Vulpecula

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There are only few AB dedicated images of this interesting and distant open cluster, that normally appears in the background of Brocchi's asterism.
Therefore I reprocessed this NGC 6802 close-up, excerpted from a larger field that I recently published here.

NGC 6802
The "rail" of the Cr399 coat-hanger leads, east, into a true open star cluster of dozens of much more distant stars, initially thought to be at about 4,580 light years away. However the same authors have refined their view and now the current estimate (2021) is 8965 ly, taking into account Early Gaia Data Release 3, and 6th "internal" Gaia-ESO survey measurements.
NGC 6802 was discovered by the omnipresent William Herschel in 1784.

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