Key facts
- Right ascension
- 07 38 25
- Declination
- +21 ° 34 ′ 30 ″
- Distance
- 10,060 ly (3,085 pc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 6.4'
- Estimated age
- 2 billion years
- Other designations
- Melotte 69, Collinder 154
- Constellation
- Gemini
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 8100
- Image
- NGC2420.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 2420
- catalog code
- Melotte 69
- time of discovery or invention
- 1783-11-19
- apparent magnitude
- 8.3
- right ascension
- 114.5958
- declination
- 21.5733
- radial velocity
- 73.57
- metallicity
- -0.05
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -1.32
- declination component of proper motion
- -4.18
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NGC 2420 is an open cluster in the constellation Gemini. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 19 November 1783. The cluster is about two billion years old and it is located 10,000 light years away.
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