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18/07/09

NGC 6475 or M 7.

NGC 6475 or M 7, also known as Ptolemy's Cluster, is a large and brilliant Open Cluster easily seen with the naked eye in the Tail of Scorpius and projected on the background of the Milky Way. The cluster has about 80 stars in an apparent diameter of about 1.3 degrees.

Taken with the Takahashi TSA-102 fitted with a Takahashi Reducer, FOV is 1.7 degrees by 1.7 degrees.


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