Key facts
- Right ascension
- 20 05 59
- Declination
- +35 ° 46.6 ′
- Distance
- 5133 ly (1574 pc )
- Estimated age
- 9.1 million years
- Other designations
- GC 4548, h 2067, Struve 2630
- Constellation
- Cygnus
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6871 is a small, young open cluster in the constellation of Cygnus. The cluster has fewer than 50 members, most of which are blue and white stars. It is located 5135 light-years from Earth.
Map showing location of NGC 6871
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q647261” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.