Q583418
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open cluster in the constellation Auriga
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 05 22 44.(0)
- Declination
- +33 ° 24 ′ 4(2) ″
- Distance
- 3,790 pc (12,400 ly )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 11.0′
- Estimated age
- 4 Myr
- Other designations
- Cr 63, Mel 33, C 0519+333, Lund 166, OCL 439, OCISM 101, Raab 24, Sh 2-236
- Constellation
- Auriga
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Tadpole Nebula
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Distance from Earth
- 3280
- Image
- NGC 1893 Spitzer View.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.05
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0516
- Commons category
- NGC 1893
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-01-22
- apparent magnitude
- 7.5
- right ascension
- 80.6833
- declination
- 33.4117
- radial velocity
- -2.2
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination component of proper motion
- -3.17
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1893 is an open cluster in the constellation Auriga. It is about 12,400 light years away. The star cluster is embedded in the Emission nebula IC 410 (also known as the Tadpole Nebula).
Images of the star cluster by the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that it contains approximately 4,600 young stellar objects.
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