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NGC 1649

Open Star Cluster in Dorado

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Proper Name	None
Messier Number	None
NGC/IC Number	NGC 1649
Constellation	Dorado
Right Ascension	4h 38m 7s
Declination	-68° 46' 43"
Distance	c.159,800 light years c.49,000 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +13.10 Absolute: -5.35
Diameter	Apparent: 15' Actual: c. 700 light years
Number of Stars	Not known
Optimum Visibility	December (Usually visible from southern latitudes)
Notes	NGC 1649 is a very distant open star cluster, at some 160,000 light years from the Solar System. This associates it with the Large Magellanic Cloud, which lies at a similar distance in a similar part of the sky, but NGC 1649 is an outlying element of that small galaxy, lying several degrees from the main mass of the Magellanic Cloud the sky.

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