Collinder 385

Collinder 385 (Cr 385), better known as NGC 6664, is an open cluster in the constellation Scutum. It lies at a distance of roughly 4,900 light-years. The same open cluster also appears in other catalogues as Her H VIII-12, H400 354, Mel 209, OCL 68, SD 84. The Collinder catalogue of 471 clusters, compiled by Per Collinder in 1931, gathers both famous showpieces and obscure groupings such as this one. The image on this page was taken at the Pollux Observatory in Zuidlaren on 30 July 2009 with the Takahashi FSQ106 ED and a Canon 350D (OSC) (mod). Total integration time was 0.0 hours. Data was collected through Luminance.