Key facts
- Right ascension
- 07 14 30.0
- Declination
- −10 ° 16 ′ 00 ″
- Distance
- 3,650 ly (1,119 pc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 20'
- Other designations
- Melotte 62, OCL 567
- Constellation
- Monoceros
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Distance from Earth
- 1119
- Image
- NGC 2353 PanS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 2353
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- Melotte 62
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-01-10
- apparent magnitude
- 7.1
- right ascension
- 108.6250
- declination
- -10.2667
- radial velocity
- 32.6
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.89
- declination component of proper motion
- 1.53
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2353 is a loosely bound open cluster located in the constellation Monoceros. It has an apparent magnitude of 7.1 and an approximate size of 20 arc-minutes. The cluster is dominated by the magnitude 6.0 star HIP 34999, which lies at the southern edge of the cluster.
Location
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