The Swan's Eye

Swan's Eye
The Swan's Eye 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates640.868 : -617.092[e]

The Swan's Eye (also known as the M39 Open Cluster and The Swan's Eyes) is a star cluster located in the spinward Deep Periphery.[1][2]

System Description[edit]

The Swan's Eye is a significant astronomical feature in the spinward Deep Periphery. Located almost 890 light-years from Terra and approximately 370 light-years beyond Great Gorge, the cluster is perched on the rimward edge of the Orion Rift, on the border of the Deep Periphery's rimward sector. The location of the Swan's Eye was released by Interstellar Expeditions on charts in 3095.[1][3][2]

The cluster is between 2 and 3 hundred million years old, with plenty of planets, though most are limited to life still in the single cell stage of evolutionary development.[3]

Notes[edit]

  • The Swan's Eye, also known as Messier 39 or the M-39 Open Cluster, is a real-world astronomical feature associated with the constellation known as the Swan, aka Cygnus. See also Cygnus.

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Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 20 systems (0 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Farhome 124.0 Star Cluster 65 164.8 Gaul 181.2 Diik 188.2
Lastpost 188.6 Oscar 189.3 Erod's Escape 194.9 Marknick 195.3
Albaracht 217.3 Colchis 218.0 Fylovar 220.1 Tyrrhenia 248.2
Belle Isle 256.1 Franmalin 267.2 Luderitz 269.4 Hope 274.8
Carvajal 287.9 Mirfak 290.1 San Carlos 290.3 Baltar 296.5

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3, p. 62: "Deep Periphery (Spinward Sector)"
  2. 2.0 2.1 Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3, p. 76: "Deep Periphery (Rimward Sector)"
  3. 3.0 3.1 Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3, p. 70: "Astrographical Overview"

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