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NGC Objects: NGC 6800 - 6849
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NGC 6800
Discovered (1784) by
William Herschel
An open cluster in Vulpecula (RA 19 27 08, Dec +25 08 26)

A group of perhaps 100 stars scattered across a region more than 20 arcmin in diameter. The image below shows an approximately half-degree wide region centered on the recorded position of the cluster.

Wikisky image of NGC 6800
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NGC Objects: NGC 6800 - 6849
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