NGC 6885, also Caldwell 37, is an
open cluster
An open cluster is a type of star cluster made of tens to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way galaxy, and ...
in the constellation
Vulpecula
Vulpecula is a faint constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "little fox", although it is commonly known simply as the fox. It was identified in the seventeenth century, and is located in the middle of the Summer Triangle (an ...
. It shines at magnitude +5.7/+8.1. Its celestial coordinates are RA , dec . It surrounds the naked eye
Be star
Be stars are a heterogeneous set of stars with B spectral types and emission lines. A narrower definition, sometimes referred to as ''classical Be stars'', is a non-supergiant B star whose spectrum has, or had at some time, one or more Balmer ...
20 Vulpeculae
20 Vulpeculae is single star located around 1,170 light years away in the northern constellation of Vulpecula. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.91. The object is ...
, and is located near
M27 (Dumbbell nebula), the nebula
IC 4954, and open clusters
NGC 6882 and
NGC 6940. It is 7'/18' across.
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SEDS– NGC 6885
VizieR– NGC 6885
NED– NGC 6885
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Open clusters
6885
037b
Vulpecula