Southern Pleiades
A bright cluster of blue stars in Carina, the southern match of the Pleiades.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Open star cluster
- Distance
- 486 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.9, easy to see with the eye
- Size in the sky
- About 2 times the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Carina
- Catalogue
- IC 2602
Figures from OpenNGC, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikipedia, “IC 2602”, CC BY-SA 4.0 (SIMBAD); magnitude SEDS. All sources