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NGC 6819 — Open Cluster in Cygnus

Open Cluster Good (51/100)
Magnitude 7.3m OpenCluster Cygnus (Cyg) Visible
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1Properties

Magnitude 7.3
Angular Size 6.9′
Cl, vL, vRi, st 11...15

Position & Identifiers

RA 19h 41m 18.0s
Dec +40° 10' 60.0"
Constellation Cygnus (Cyg)
Catalog NGC 6819
Physical size
18 light-years across — about 2.1× the Sun-to-Sirius distance

2How easy to spot?

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Telescope Bortle 3 Bortle 4 Bortle 5
80mm refr. Easy Easy Easy
150mm Newt. Easy Easy Easy
C8 203mm Easy Easy Easy
Easy Medium Hard Very hard Impossible

Bortle 3 = rural · 4 = outer suburbs · 5 = suburbs

Easy on Seestar S50
At 150mm under B5 skies you should resolve about 35 of 800 members.

3Visibility

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Best season Jun – Aug (peak: Jul)

4 Eyepiece View

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125x TFOV: 0.4° Lim. mag: 13.6
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NGC 6819 · 6.9′ diameter

5 Best Magnification

6Where this cluster sits in time

1 Myr 10 Myr 100 Myr 1 Gyr 10 Gyr NGC 2362 Pleiades Hyades NGC 188 NGC 6819 2.2 Gyr

Open clusters span more than four orders of magnitude in age — from newborn OB associations to ancient, metal-rich survivors.

7 Colour-Magnitude Diagram

A cluster's colour-magnitude diagram reveals its age: the bluer the turn-off point where the main sequence bends into red giants, the younger the cluster.

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Each point is a Gaia-DR3 member. Colour encodes spectral type; size reflects membership probability.

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8 Classification Decoder

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Other targets within a few degrees — pan your scope a little and keep exploring.

Visibility scores assume a 150 mm Newton at Bortle 4.

V973 Cyg
Medium
Semi-regular variable, range 6.1–6.8
Variable Star mag 6.34 0.9° Cygnus
NGC 6791
Easy
Open cluster
Open Cluster mag 9.5 4.6° Lyra
Fawaris
HIP 97165; Delta Cygni; 18 Cygni
Medium
Colorful double, sep 2.8″
Double Star mag 2.87 5.0° Cygnus
NGC 6866
Easy
Open cluster
Open Cluster mag 7.6 5.8° Cygnus
Crescent nebula
NGC 6888
Medium+
Emission nebula — try an OIII filter
Emission Nebula mag 7.44 6.2° Cygnus
NGC 6811
Easy
Rich open cluster
Open Cluster mag 6.8 6.4° Cygnus
NGC 6871
Easy
Rich open cluster
Open Cluster mag 5.2 6.6° Cygnus
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