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The cluster NGC 6633 is well placed

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The open star cluster NGC 6633 (mag 4.6) in Ophiuchus will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 29 June it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Ashburn , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 21:59 (EDT), 37° above your south-eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 01:08, 57° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 04:23, 35° above your south-western horizon.

At a declination of 6°30'N, it is visible across much of the world; it can be seen at latitudes between 76°N and 63°S.

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At magnitude 4.6, NGC6633 is too faint to be seen with the naked eye from any but the very darkest sites, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of NGC6633 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
NGC6633 18h27m10s 6°30'N Ophiuchus 4.6 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 29 Jun 2027

The sky on 29 June 2027
Sunrise
05:43
Sunset
20:39
Twilight ends
22:38
Twilight begins
03:44

25-day old moon
Waning Crescent

16%

25 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:24 12:31 19:38
Venus 04:55 12:19 19:44
Moon 01:33 08:44 16:06
Mars 11:50 18:06 00:23
Jupiter 09:37 16:27 23:18
Saturn 01:52 08:20 14:49
All times shown in EDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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39.04°N
77.49°W
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