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- Messier_38 abstract "Messier 38 (also known as M38 or NGC 1912) is an open cluster in the Auriga constellation.It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and independently found by Le Gentil in 1749. M36 and M37, also discovered by Hodierna, are grouped together with M38 at a distance of about 3,420 light years away from Earth.The cluster's brightest stars form a pattern resembling the Greek letter Pi or, according to Webb, an \"oblique cross.\" At its distance of 4,200 light years, its angular diameter of about 20' corresponds to about 25 light years, similar to that of its more distant neighbor M37. It is of intermediate age (about 220 million years, according to Sky Catalog 2000) and features a yellow giant of apparent magnitude +7.9 and spectral type G0 as its brightest member. This corresponds to an absolute magnitude of -1.5, or a luminosity of 900 Suns. For comparison, the Sun would appear as a faint magnitude +15.3 star from the distance of M38.Walter Scott Houston described its appearance as follows:Photographs usually show a departure from circularity, a feature quite evident to visual observers. Older reports almost always mention a cross shape, which seems more pronounced with small instruments. A view with a 24-inch reflector on a fine Arizona night showed the cluster as irregular, and the host of stars made fruitless any effort to find a geometrical figure.".
- Messier_38 thumbnail M38_Open_Cluster.jpg?width=300.
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- Messier_38 wikiPageLength "4793".
- Messier_38 wikiPageOutDegree "34".
- Messier_38 wikiPageRevisionID "699711419".
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Absolute_magnitude.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Apparent_magnitude.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Auriga_(constellation).
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Astronomical_objects_discovered_in_1654.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Auriga_(constellation).
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Messier_objects.
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- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Open_clusters.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Perseus_Arm.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Declination.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Earth.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Giovanni_Battista_Hodierna.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Guillaume_Le_Gentil.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink HD_35519.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Julian_year_(astronomy).
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Light-year.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Messier_36.
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- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Pi_(letter).
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Right_ascension.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Stellar_classification.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Sun.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink Walter_Scott_Houston.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink File:M38_Open_Cluster.jpg.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLink File:Star_map_-_M38_cluster.png.
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLinkText "M38".
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Messier 38".
- Messier_38 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Open Cluster M38".
- Messier_38 age "220".
- Messier_38 appmagV "7.4".
- Messier_38 caption "M38 open cluster".
- Messier_38 class "II".
- Messier_38 constellation Auriga_(constellation).
- Messier_38 dec "+35° 51′ 18″".
- Messier_38 distLy "4.2".
- Messier_38 distPc "1.3".
- Messier_38 epoch "J2000.0".
- Messier_38 name "Messier 38".
- Messier_38 names Messier_38.
- Messier_38 ra "19722.0".
- Messier_38 radiusLy "13.0".
- Messier_38 sizeV "21".
- Messier_38 vHb "-1.5".
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- Messier_38 subject Category:Astronomical_objects_discovered_in_1654.
- Messier_38 subject Category:Auriga_(constellation).
- Messier_38 subject Category:Messier_objects.
- Messier_38 subject Category:NGC_objects.
- Messier_38 subject Category:Open_clusters.
- Messier_38 subject Category:Perseus_Arm.
- Messier_38 hypernym Cluster.
- Messier_38 type Language.
- Messier_38 type Catalogue.
- Messier_38 type Object.
- Messier_38 type Redirect.
- Messier_38 comment "Messier 38 (also known as M38 or NGC 1912) is an open cluster in the Auriga constellation.It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and independently found by Le Gentil in 1749.".
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