Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- OpC
- Distance
- 4,979 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00006671059388796419
- Coordinates
- RA 272.6592° · Dec -16.7400°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Distance from Earth
- 3400
- Image
- NGC 6561 PanS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 272.6250
- declination
- -16.7250
- radial velocity
- -20.0
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2834
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-06-27
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.02
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.02
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