One of a number of minor constellations that lie between Pegasus and Hercules. Despite lying directly on the Milky Way, Sagitta contains very little of interest.
The constellation of Sagitta (The Arrow) shows you four stars line up like an arrow itself completely. It's found at nearly midway between Altair, alpha Aquilae and Albireo, beta Cygni. The constellation is positioned near the East Side of summer's Milky Way, you can appreciate plenty of faint stars through binoculars. A Greek myth said this arrow is the God of love, Eros's one. The name of "Eros" is said "Cupid" in the Roman mythology.
Star Cluster's In Sagitta
M71 (NGC6838)
M71 is found between delta and gamma Sagittae and slightly south. This celestial body is classified as a globular cluster with a size of 6 arc minutes, but it looks more like a crowded open cluster. You can detect the individual stars with only small scopes. The cluster has a magnitude of about 9 and 18 thousand light years away. It's fairly easy to find that with binoculars in the clear asterism of the Arrow.
NGC 6839
NGC 6839 13" at 100X it is easy to see, the eye goes right to the compact cluster. 150X is a good view, pretty bright, small, compressed, 11 stars counted of mags 11 and fainter. There is a 9th mag star that is 4 arcmin south. This is certainly not a grand cluster, but one can see why Wm Hershel included it in his listing.
NGC 6879
NGC 6879 Pretty bright, very small, not brighter in the middle. It is just a non-stellar disk at 220X. Averted vision makes it grow. Camp 613 13"--330X pretty faint, very small, not brighter middle, round, just barely larger than Airy disk, has the dull texture of a planetary, not shiny like a star.
NGC 6886
NGC 6886 Pretty bright, very, very small, little elongated. Just a central star with a tiny, elongated haze around it at 220X. The grey-green color gave it away. Camp 613 13" 330X--pretty faint, very small, not brighter in the middle, round, just barely larger than seeing disk, on east side of isosceles triangle of stars of equal magnitude. Sun Valley PKWY 13" 330X--a tiny greenish disk, averted vision makes a real difference. This little planetary is tough to find in Milky Way field, but a nice little disk at high magnification on a steady night.
Galaxy In Sagitta
NGC6892
NGC6892 is a small spiral galaxy in Sagitta at a magnitude of 1.8' This faint galaxy is not that clear. The galaxies Co-ordinates are Right Ascension: 19 40 06.0 & Declination: -77 33 00. The photo magnitude of the galaxy is 1.8:'
IC 4997
IC 4997 Pretty bright, very, very small, somewhat brighter in the middle at 165X. Not much larger than the Airy disk.
Planetary Destinations In Sagitta
15 Sagitta
