IC 2602 C 102 Southern Pleiades

Capture

Seestar s50 91 stacks

Date

12 July 2026

Location

Camden, NSW

Original

2160 × 3840 px

IC 2602 C 102 Southern Pleiades is an open cluster in the constellation Carina. The Southern Pleiades contains about 75 stars and is the third-brightest open cluster in the sky. Many of them are very hot blue/white stars which are very prominent in the image. The cluster’s distance is estimated at 479 light-years. Visible to the east, are three fifth-magnitude stars and other less bright ones, to the west a less abundant group which includes the main star, the blue giant θ Carinae, of visual magnitude 2.74. Apparent magnitude 1.9.

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