🔭 M24 — Small Sagittarius Star Cloud

Deep-sky object in Sagittarius

M24, Small Sagittarius Star Cloud is a deep-sky object in the constellation Sagittarius, with an apparent magnitude of about 2.5, roughly 10 thousand light-years away.

Data

Catalogue designation	M24
Common name	Small Sagittarius Star Cloud
Object type	Deep-sky object
Constellation	Sagittarius
NGC / IC	IC 4715
Apparent magnitude	2.5
Distance (approx.)	10 thousand light-years

What a deep-sky object is

A fainter or more ambiguous fuzzy patch in the sky — a star cloud, double star or object whose nature was debated long after Messier logged it as a comet-like smudge.

Other Messier objects in Sagittarius: M8, M17, M18, M20, M21, M22, M23, M25, M28, M54, M55, M69, M70, M75.

Data: Messier catalogue & IAU constellations, via English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) · stored statically.