Open cluster · constellation Sco
NGC 6259
NGC 6259NGC 6222MWSC 2511
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 17h 00m 45.4s
- Declination
- -44° 39' 18"
- Size
- 6.0′
- Position angle
- not available
- Magnitude
- 8.0 (V)
- Surface brightness
- 20.52 mag/arcsec²(derived)
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Suggested techniques
- RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
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