NGC 2516
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open cluster in the constellation Carina
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 07 58 20
- Declination
- −60 ° 52 ′
- Distance
- 1.3 kly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 30.0 ′
- Mass
- 10 to 10 M ☉
- Other designations
- NGC 2516, Caldwell 96, Cr 172
- Constellation
- Carina
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Carina
- Distance from Earth
- 346
- Image
- NGC 2516 in Carina.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 2516
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 1393
- discoverer or inventor
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
- time of discovery or invention
- 1751-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 3.8
- right ascension
- 119.5167
- declination
- -60.7533
- radial velocity
- 23.78
- epoch
- J2000.0
- parallax
- 2.4118
- metallicity
- 0.05
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -4.657
- declination component of proper motion
- 11.151
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2516 (also known as Caldwell 96) is an open star cluster in the southern sky in the constellation Carina discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751-1752. It is also called Southern Beehive or the Sprinter.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2516” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.