- Instance of
- Part of
Overview
All data
38 statements · 92% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Catalog code
- NGC 6779 catalog: New General Catalogue
1
- M 56 catalog: Messier object
1
- CSI+30-19146 3 catalog: Catalog of Stellar Identifications
1
- GCRV 11736 catalog: General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities
1
- GCl 110 catalog: Catalogue of star clusters and associations + supplements
1
- Melotte 220 catalog: Melotte Catalogue
- C 1914+300 catalog: Caldwell catalogue
1
- [KPS2012] MWSC 3077 catalog: Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way. III. 139 new open clusters at high Galactic latitudes
1
- NGC 6779 catalog: New General Catalogue
- Discovered
- January 23, 1779
1
- January 23, 1779
- Radius
- 42 ly
1
- 42 ly
- Distance from Earth
- 0.01 Mpc
- Radial velocity
- -135.6 kilometre per second
- -135.7 kilometre per second
- Absolute magnitude
- -7.41
- Metallicity
- -1.98
- Right ascension
- 289.1482 degree
- Declination
- 30.1835 degree
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- 1.56 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- -2.99 milliarcsecond per year
On other databases
3 identifiers linking Messier 56 across the web's reference databases