Open cluster · constellation Sco
NGC 6242
NGC 6242MWSC 2488
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 16h 55m 33.4s
- Declination
- -39° 27' 39"
- Size
- 6.6′
- Position angle
- not available
- Magnitude
- 6.4 (V)
- Surface brightness
- 19.13 mag/arcsec²(derived)
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Suggested techniques
- RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
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