Butterfly Cluster
Open cluster in the constellation Scorpius
Also known as Messier 6 · M6
- Instance of
- Part of
Overview
All data
38 statements · 87% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Catalog code
- M 6 catalog: Messier object
1
- NGC 6405 catalog: New General Catalogue
1
- C 1736-321 catalog: Caldwell catalogue
1
- OCl 1030.0 catalog: Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations
2
- Collinder 341 catalog: Collinder catalogue
- Melotte 178 catalog: Melotte Catalogue
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2661 catalog: Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way. III. 139 new open clusters at high Galactic latitudes
1
- M 6 catalog: Messier object
- Discovered
- 1654
1
- 1654
- Distance from Earth
- 0.4 kiloparsec
- Radius
- 6 ly
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- 6 ly
- Radial velocity
- -9.2 kilometre per second
- Right ascension
- 265.0833 degree
1
- 265.0833 degree
- Declination
- -32.2533 degree
1
- -32.2533 degree
- Parallax
- 2.1626 milliarcsecond
- Metallicity
- 0.07
1
- 0.07
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- -1.3662 milliarcsecond per year
- -1.366 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- -5.8063 milliarcsecond per year
- -5.806 milliarcsecond per year
On other databases
3 identifiers linking Butterfly Cluster across the web's reference databases