Ptolemy Cluster
Type: Open Cluster
Magnitude: 3.3
Location Guide: The cluster is easily detectable with the naked eye, close to
the “sting” of Scorpius near the center of the line between Shaula (l Scorpii)
and Kaus Media (d Sagittarii).
M7 has been known since antiquity it was first recorded by the 2nd-century
Greek-Roman astronomer Ptolemy, who described it as a nebula in 130 AD.
Telescopic observations of the clustern reveal about 80 stars within a field of
view of 1.3 across.
At the cluster’s estimated distance of 980 light years this corresponds to
an actual diameter of 25 light years.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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