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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: | Aquila |
Right ascension: | 19h00m58.18s |
Declination: | +11°55'45.1" |
Apparent magnitude: | 9.55 |
Proper motion RA: | -17.8 |
Proper motion Dec: | -18.9 |
B-T magnitude: | 10.741 |
V-T magnitude: | 9.649 |
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