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Open cluster · Lyra

NGC 6791

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Type

Open cluster

Constellation

Lyra

Position (J2000)

19h 20m 53s · +37° 46′ 19″

Discovered

by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke in 1853

Pictures

2

Typical integration

3.4 h

Magnitude

9.5

visual

Size

6.3′

Distance

~23,000 ly

Best months

Jun–Aug

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.