Star cluster
FSR 0236
Open star cluster · 158 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 | Cygnus |
| Distance | 901 pc (2.9 thousand ly) |
| Age | 158 million years |
| Member stars (MWSC) | 303 |
| Reddening E(B−V) | 1.17 |
| Source | MWSC (Kharchenko et al. 2013) |
| Right ascension (J2000) | 20h 32m 36.6s |
| Declination (J2000) | +41° 26′ 24″ |
In the sky
Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 49° S. North of latitude 49° 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 914 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 52 million years.