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NGC 6940

Open cluster · Vulpecula

NGC 6940

Herschel 400
RASC Finest NGC

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Type: Open cluster
Constellation: Vulpecula
Position (J2000): 20h 34m 27s · +28° 16′ 58″
Discovered: by William Herschel in 1784

Pictures: 0
Magnitude: 6.3; visual
Size: 10.8′
Distance: ~2,500 ly
Best months: Jun–Aug

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

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