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star cluster

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
OpC
Distance
11,648 light-years
Redshift
z = -0.00022714802892187524
Coordinates
RA 343.5790° · Dec 60.8140°
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Key facts

Right ascension
22 54 20
Declination
+60 ° 48 ′ 54 ″
Distance
2,930 +320, −260 pc
Apparent dimensions v
2 ′
Other designations
Collinder 453
Constellation
Cepheus

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 7419 is an open cluster in the constellation Cepheus. It is heavily reddened and notable for containing five red supergiants, the highest number known in any cluster until the end of the 20th century, but probably no blue supergiants.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7419” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.