Centering NGC 663 draws the last two members of the
open cluster quartet into view, NGC 654 and NGC 659, both much smaller than their neighbor.
The Lagoon Nebula and the
open cluster enmeshed in it are 4,300 light-years distant, considerably closer to us than M22.
One of Monoceros' famous objects is the
open cluster NGC 2323, perhaps better known as Messier 50, which can be found easily with only the aid of binoculars.
Although most of the finest deep sky objects have Messier designations, there are many that do not and
open cluster NGC 457 in Cassiopeia, one of the 107
open clusters in the Herschel 400 observing list, is one of them.
The Beehive is an
open cluster, or a grouping of stars born at about the same time and out of the same giant cloud of material.
M45: Better known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, this
open cluster is one of the most spectacular of its kind in the heavens.
I think NetApp's been tracking VI for a while and the next generation
open cluster interconnect is really interesting, because from our perspective it enables us to combine all of the performance advantages of direct connect storage with all of the flexibility and data sharing and maintainability advantages of file access protocol where we have been specializing.
Latham of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., indicate that many of the blue stragglers in the
open cluster M67 do have a distant companion.
Just a little to the east of The Coathanger, straight in line with the bar, you'll find the small
open cluster NGC 6802, whose stars are arranged in an oblong oval that looks a little like a figure 8 or a helix.
The
open cluster NGC 6631 is located about 2.50 north-east of M16 inside the boundaries of Scutum.