Star cluster
Berkeley 82
Open star cluster · 115 million years
An open cluster of stars born together from the same gas cloud in the Milky Way’s disc; the Galaxy’s tidal forces will disperse it within a few hundred million years. Position, distance, age and member count come from the MWSC catalogue; the total brightness is roughly estimated from the member count.
| Type | Star cluster |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Aquila |
| Distance | 1,125 pc (3.7 thousand ly) |
| Age | 115 million years |
| Member stars (MWSC) | 208 |
| Reddening E(B−V) | 0.92 |
| Source | MWSC (Kharchenko et al. 2013) |
| Right ascension (J2000) | 19h 11m 20.4s |
| Declination (J2000) | +13° 05′ 46″ |
In the sky
Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 77° S. North of latitude 77° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in July, the best time to observe it.
Through a telescope from Earth
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around 1644 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 65 million years.