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M44 - The Beehive Cluster512 viewsOpen cluster in the constellation Cancer. Around 600 light-years distant and 600 million years old.
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NGC 457 - The Owl Cluster503 viewsAn open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 7,900 light-years distance from our Solar System. The "eyes" are the magnitude 5 star Phi-1 Cassiopeiae and magnitude 7 Phi-2 Cassiopeiae.
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M14 - Globular cluster in Ophiuchus499 viewsAlso known as NGC 6402. 30,000 light-years distant. Contains several hundred thousand stars.
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Messier 12, Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus496 viewsAbout 16,400 light years from Earth; diameter about 75 light-years. It is loosely packed and has an unusually small number of low-mass stars.
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M41 - Little Beehive Cluster482 viewsOpen cluster in Canis Major, 2360 light-years from Earth.
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M45 - The Pleiades466 viewsA star cluster consisting of young, hot blue stars, about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. Only part of the cluster is shown here because it is too large to fit in the scope's field of view.
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M5 - Globular cluster in Serpens458 viewsA globular cluster - one of the largest known, with a radius of 200 light-years - in the constellation Serpens. Distance from Earth is about 24,500 light-years.
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Messier 13 - Hercules Globular Cluster453 views145 light-years in diameter, consisting of several hundred thousand stars, this is the most famous globular cluster in the Northern Hemisphere and is about 22,000 miles from Earth.
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Messier 39 - Open Cluster in Cygnus445 viewsAn open cluster in the constellation Cygnus the Swan; distance 1010 light-years.
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NGC 869 and 884 - The Double Cluster in Perseus441 viewsOver 7500 light-years away, these twin open clusters each contain over 300 blue-white supergiant stars; they are about 13 million years old.
   
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