Open clusters in Scorpius

23 CATALOGUED

Stars born together and still travelling together — loose open groups, or ancient globes of hundreds of thousands.

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Brightest▸
Pleiades — apparent magnitude 1.20 (V)
TOP 50
ALL CLASSESOPEN CLUSTER · 663GLOBULAR CLUSTER · 208STELLAR ASSOCIATION · 64
BY CONSTELLATION · 70 REGIONS
ALL SKYDORADO · 194MENSA · 68SAGITTARIUS · 49CYGNUS · 43SCORPIUS · 42TUCANA · 40PUPPIS · 37MONOCEROS · 35CASSIOPEIA · 33CENTAURUS · 27OPHIUCHUS · 26VELA · 24AURIGA · 19PERSEUS · 19AQUILA · 17CARINA · 17CEPHEUS · 15CANIS MAJOR · 14VULPECULA · 14GEMINI · 13SCUTUM · 13NORMA · 12ORION · 11TAURUS · 11ARA · 10CRUX · 9HYDRUS · 8LUPUS · 8LACERTA · 7SERPENS · 7ANDROMEDA · 5COMA BERENICES · 5TRIANGULUM · 5CAMELOPARDALIS · 4CANCER · 4CIRCINUS · 4COLUMBA · 4HERCULES · 4MUSCA · 4PEGASUS · 4AQUARIUS · 3DELPHINUS · 3HYDRA · 3LEPUS · 3LYRA · 3PYXIS · 3SAGITTA · 3APUS · 2CANIS MINOR · 2CAPRICORNUS · 2HOROLOGIUM · 2LYNX · 2PICTOR · 2BOÖTES · 1CANES VENATICI · 1CHAMAELEON · 1CORONA AUSTRALIS · 1DRACO · 1ERIDANUS · 1FORNAX · 1LIBRA · 1PAVO · 1RETICULUM · 1SCULPTOR · 1TELESCOPIUM · 1TRIANGULUM AUSTRALE · 1URSA MAJOR · 1URSA MINOR · 1VIRGO · 1VOLANS · 1

The 23 catalogued below lie inside the IAU boundaries of Scorpius. Everything else in Scorpius →

NAME▲
CLASS
MASS
DISTANCE
MAG
CONSTELLATION
Butterfly Cluster
Open cluster
—
1482 ly
4.20 V
Scorpius
NGC 5998
Open cluster
—
—
—
Scorpius
NGC 6124
Open cluster
—
2056 ly
5.80 V
Scorpius
NGC 6178
Open cluster
—
2890 ly
7.20 V
Scorpius
NGC 6192
Open cluster
—
5438 ly
8.50 V
Scorpius
NGC 6216
Open cluster
—
8238 ly
10.10 V
Scorpius
NGC 6231
Open cluster
—
5275 ly
2.60 V
Scorpius
NGC 6242
Open cluster
—
4161 ly
6.40 V
Scorpius
NGC 6249
Open cluster
—
3992 ly
8.20 V
Scorpius
NGC 6259
Open cluster
—
7473 ly
8.00 V
Scorpius
NGC 6268
Open cluster
—
4921 ly
9.50 V
Scorpius
NGC 6281
Open cluster
—
1715 ly
5.40 V
Scorpius
NGC 6318
Open cluster
—
7429 ly
11.80 V
Scorpius
NGC 6322
Open cluster
—
4309 ly
6.00 V
Scorpius
NGC 6374
Open cluster
—
3617 ly
5.50 V
Scorpius
NGC 6396
Open cluster
—
8547 ly
8.50 V
Scorpius
NGC 6400
Open cluster
—
3947 ly
8.80 V
Scorpius
NGC 6404
Open cluster
—
8492 ly
10.60 V
Scorpius
NGC 6416
Open cluster
—
3428 ly
—
Scorpius
NGC 6425
Open cluster
—
3211 ly
7.20 V
Scorpius
NGC 6444
Open cluster
—
—
—
Scorpius
NGC 6451
Open cluster
—
9791 ly
8.20 V
Scorpius
Ptolemy's Cluster
Open cluster
—
905.7 ly
3.30 V
Scorpius

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