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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.

Location of IC 4756
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. 		Relative Galactic Position of IC 4756
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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