NGC 3532

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Open star cluster
NGC 3532
Image taken with the MPG / ESO 2.2 m telescope
Image taken with the MPG / ESO 2.2 m telescope
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Constellation Keel of the ship
Position
equinox : J2000.0
Right ascension 11 h 05 m 47.8 s
declination -58 ° 46 ′ 14 ″
Appearance

classification II1m
Brightness  (visual) 3.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 3.2 mag
Angular expansion 50.0 '
Physical data

Affiliation Milky Way
distance  1600 ly
(486 pc )
history
Discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Discovery time 1751
Catalog names
 NGC  3532 • C 1104-584 • OCl 839 •  Mel  103 •  Cr  238 •  Dun  323 • Lund 574 •  ESO  128-SC31 •  GC  2308 •  h  3315 • Raab 88, Caldwell 91

NGC 3532 is an open star cluster in the constellation Carina and is approximately 1500 light years from Earth. This cluster of stars is around 300 million years old. It was discovered by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751 and cataloged in 1755. NGC  3532 has an angular diameter of just under one degree and an apparent magnitude of 3.0 mag.

A section of NGC 3532 was the target for the first light of the Hubble space telescope .

Web links

Commons : NGC 3532  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c SEDS : NGC 3532
  3. WEBDA page on NGC 3532
  4. Seligman
  5. http://www.eso.org/public/germany/news/eso1439/