Star cluster
NGC 7063
Open star cluster · 91 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 | 689 pc (2.2 thousand ly) |
| Age | 91 million years |
| Member stars (MWSC) | 96 |
| Reddening E(B−V) | 0.09 |
| Source | MWSC (Kharchenko et al. 2013) |
| Right ascension (J2000) | 21h 24m 32.4s |
| Declination (J2000) | +36° 29′ 42″ |
In the sky
Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 54° S. North of latitude 54° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in August, the best time to observe it.
Through a telescope from Earth
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around 222 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 40 million years.