Open cluster · constellation Ara
NGC 6253
NGC 6253MWSC 2502
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 16h 59m 05.1s
- Declination
- -52° 42' 32"
- Size
- 6.0′
- Position angle
- not available
- Magnitude
- 10.2 (V)
- Surface brightness
- 22.72 mag/arcsec²(derived)
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Suggested techniques
- RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
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