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M 18

Open cluster · Sagittarius

M 18

Also known as NGC 6613

Messier 18

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Type: Open cluster
Constellation: Sagittarius
Position (J2000): 18h 19m 58s · −17° 06′ 07″
Discovered: by Charles Messier in 1764

Pictures: 0
Magnitude: 6.9; visual
Size: 6′
Distance: ~4,200 ly
Best months: May–Jul

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.

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