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Open cluster M34 in Perseus

author: R.Gendler/Novapix

reference: a-aou10-39002

Image Size 300 DPI: 28 * 20 cm

The open cluster M34 (NGC 1039) is located 1400 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Perseus; it contains about a hundred stars in a region some dozen light-years across, and is visible to the naked eye under good conditions. Date: 2004

Keywords for this photo:

2004 - ACT260110 - ASTRONOMY - M34 - NGC 1039 - OPEN CLUSTER - PERSEUS - STAR - STAR CLUSTER -