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NGC 7510 (Little Jewel Box) - an open cluster towards constellation Cepheus |
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RC 12" Astrograph 29' x 29' FOV
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NGC 7510 is an open cluster, pretty rich, pretty compressed, with pretty bright stars. In IRIDA Observatory we decided to name it Little Jewel Box because it resembles the Jewel Box (Kappa Crucis Cluster or NGC 4755) in the constellation Crux (Crux Australis). For the northern hemisphere with latitudes higher than 40 degrees NGC 7510 is circumpolar and thus visible all night. This young open cluster in the northern Galactic Plane is about 6 Myr old (Piskunov et al. 2004). The distance to NGC 7510 measured with precise astrometry by the second Gaia data release with a parallax of ~0.3 mas (milli-second of arc) is about 3.33 kpc or 10.9 kly (Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020). |
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Charts and image details obtained from Astrometry.net
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RC 12" Astrograph (IRIDA South dome) Imaging details
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