Key facts
- Right ascension
- 07 17.0
- Declination
- +13 ° 47 ′
- Distance
- 5.38 kly (1.65 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 5 ′
- Other designations
- Cr 133, NGC 2356
- Constellation
- Gemini
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Distance from Earth
- 1.8
- Image
- NGC 2355 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Melotte 63
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-03-08
- apparent magnitude
- 9.7
- Commons category
- NGC 2355
- right ascension
- 109.25833
- declination
- 13.76639
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 35.0
- metallicity
- -0.05
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.50
- declination component of proper motion
- -3.00
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2355 also known as NGC 2356, is an old open cluster in the constellation Gemini.
It is approximately a billion years old and is located about 5,400 light years (ly) from the Solar System and 1,100 ly above the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. At that distance, the angular size of the cluster halo corresponds to a radius of about 23 ly. The core radius is 2.3 ly, and the central component radius is 11 ly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2355” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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