NGC 6208 [SEP] constellation
NGC 6208
NGC 6208 is an open cluster in the southern constellation of Ara. With an age of 1.17 Gigayears, it is one of the oldest known open clusters.
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- Image NGC 6208
the size of the full Moon. It is approximately 4200 light-years from Earth. It has one bright member, a double star with a blue-white hued primary of magnitude 5.6 and a secondary of magnitude 6.9. NGC 6193 is surrounded by NGC 6188, a faint nebula only normally visible in long-exposure photographs.
- NGC 6200
- NGC 6204
- NGC 6208
- NGC 6250
- NGC 6253
- IC 4651
Features Deep-sky objects Globular clusters.
- NGC 6352
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