Messier 29

age

Its [Messier 29] age is estimated at 10 million years, as its five hottest stars are all giants of spectral class B0.

chart

open cluster of

Cygnus

random

And I think I may say without vanity, that if there is any one who can carry them out that length, it must be myself rather than another: not that there may not be in the world many minds incomparably superior to mine, but because one cannot so well seize a thing and make it one’s own, when it has been learned from another, as when one has himself discovered it.

tags

open cluster
Messier object

visibility

It can be made out in binoculars in a good sky. In telescopes, lowest powers are best.

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13647

Wikipedia

Messier 29 (Wikipedia) Messier 29 or M29, also known as NGC 6913 or the Cooling Tower Cluster, is a quite small, bright open cluster of stars just south of the central bright star Gamma Cygni of a northerly zone of the sky, Cygnus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, and can be seen from Earth by using binoculars.

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