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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
IC 4756
An
open cluster
of some eighty
stars
lying in the
constellation
Serpens
, some 1,300
light years
from
Earth
.
IC 4756
lies near the tip of the
Serpent's Tail
, at the point where
Serpens
borders both
Ophiuchus
and
Aquila
, in a fairly dense region of the
Milky Way
.
IC 4756
is about 1,300
light years
from the
Sun
: a vast distance in real terms, but hardly detectable on a
Galactic
scale.
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NGC 6633
Serpens
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