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Messier 52 or M52, also known as NGC 7654 or the Scorpion Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the highly northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1774. [ 3 ] [ a ] It can be seen from Earth under a good night sky with binoculars .
Cassiopeia (listen ⓘ) is a constellation and asterism in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda, in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty. Cassiopeia was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today.
V762 Cassiopeiae is a red supergiant and a variable star located about 2,500 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation. Its apparent magnitude vary between 5.82 and 5.95, which makes it faintly visible to the naked eye under dark skies. It is a relatively cool star with an average surface temperature of 3,869 K.
Nu Cassiopeiae, [11] Latinized from ν Cassiopeiae, is a solitary [12] star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. With an apparent visual magnitude of +4.89, [ 2 ] it is a faint star but visible to the naked eye.
Rho Cassiopeiae (/ ˌ r oʊ k æ s i ə ˈ p iː aɪ,-s i oʊ-,-iː /; ρ Cas, ρ Cassiopeiae) is a yellow hypergiant star in the constellation Cassiopeia.It is about 8,150 light-years (2,500 pc) from Earth, yet can still be seen by the naked eye as it is over 300,000 times brighter than the Sun.
Sh 2-185 is located at a distance of approximately 10,500 ly (3.23 kpc) from the Sun. [2] The region is surrounded by a dust shell, [4] and displays several infrared point sources that are a characteristics of young stellar objects. [5] This H II region includes the reflection and emission nebulae IC 59 and IC 63. [4]
2 Cassiopeiae (2 Cas) is a white bright giant in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 2,800 light years away. It is a chemically peculiar Am star . 2 Cassiopeiae has been described as an A4 type bright giant, but its spectrum is not easy to classify.
48 Cassiopeiae is a triple star [11] [7] system in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.49. [ 2 ] With an annual parallax shift of 28.36 ± 0.44 mas as seen from Earth's orbit, it is located approximately 115 light years away. [ 1 ]