Key facts
- Right ascension
- 8 09 52.360
- Declination
- −49 ° 10 ′ 35.01 ″
- Distance
- 1.19 kly ( 364.0 +46.8, −37.9 pc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 20 ′
- Mass
- 201 M ☉
- Radius
- 2.61 ly
- Estimated age
- 37.7 +5.7, −4.8 Myr
- Other designations
- NGC 2547, Cr 177, Mel 84, Dunlop 410, Lacaille III.2
- Constellation
- Vela
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- interstellar medium
- Constellation
- Vela
- Distance from Earth
- 457
- Image
- Star cluster NGC 2547.jpg
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- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 1437
- Commons category
- NGC 2547
- discoverer or inventor
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
- time of discovery or invention
- 1751-00-00
- declination component of proper motion
- 4.254
- apparent magnitude
- 4.7
- declination
- -49.1763930
- right ascension
- 122.4681650
- radial velocity
- 15.46
- epoch
- J2000.0
- parallax
- 2.5438
- metallicity
- -0.14
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -8.599
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2547 is a southern open cluster in Vela, discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa. The star cluster is young with an age of 20-30 million years.
Observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope showed a shell around the B3 III/IV-type star HD 68478. This could be a sign of recent mass loss in this star.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2547” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.