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NGC 103
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open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 25 18
- Declination
- +61 ° 21.0 ′
- Apparent dimensions v
- 5 ′
- Other designations
- Cr 1, OCL291
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Image
- NGC 0103 DSS.jpg
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- declination
- 61.3400
- apparent magnitude
- 10.28
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0040
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1829-10-05
- right ascension
- 6.2700
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- -116.70
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.18
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.33
- Commons category
- NGC 103
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 103 is a small open cluster. It is partially visible in an 8" amateur telescope under moderately light polluted skies. It is roughly 4600 light-years from the Sun.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 103” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.