Key facts
- Right ascension
- 19 42 27.92
- Declination
- +23 ° 05 ′ 14.7 ″
- Distance
- 6,000 ly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 40 arcmins
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Designations
- Nebula (NGC 6820, Sh2-86)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- NGC 6820 and NGC 6823
- Has part
- Q1147876
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Distance from Earth
- 1893
- Image
- Sh 2-86RGBHaRGBHunter.jpg
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- catalog code
- C 1941+231
- Commons category
- NGC 6823
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-07-17
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.28
- apparent magnitude
- 7.1
- right ascension
- 295.788
- declination
- 23.30000
- radial velocity
- 17.0
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination component of proper motion
- -4.97
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6820 is a small emission nebula near the open cluster NGC 6823 in Vulpecula. The reflection nebula and cluster are embedded in a large faint emission nebula called Sh 2-86. The whole area of nebulosity is often referred to as NGC 6820.
M27, the Dumbbell Nebula, is found three degrees to the east, and α Vulpeculae three degrees to the west.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q378016” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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