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NGC 6738: Not a real open cluster A photometric, astrometric and spectroscopic investigation of the poorlystudied open cluster NGC 6738 has been performed in order to ascertainits real nature. NGC 6738 is definitely not a physical stellar ensemble:photometry does not show a defined mean sequence, proper motions andradial velocities are randomly distributed, spectro-photometricparallaxes range between 10 and 1600 pc, and the apparent luminosityfunction is identical to that of the surrounding field. NGC 6738therefore appears to be an apparent concentration of a few bright starsprojected on patchy background absorption.
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Constellation: | Αετός |
Right ascension: | 19h01m33.27s |
Declination: | +11°35'23.2" |
Apparent magnitude: | 9.249 |
Proper motion RA: | -0.6 |
Proper motion Dec: | -4.3 |
B-T magnitude: | 9.427 |
V-T magnitude: | 9.264 |
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