Top picture: IC 2944 in Hα and OIII by @backyard_bruno

IC 2944 · Star cluster with nebula · Centaurus

lam Cen Nebula

Also known as C 100

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Type

Star cluster with nebula

Constellation

Centaurus

Position (J2000)

11h 35m 47s · −63° 01′ 11″

Discovered

by Royal Harwood Frost in 1904

Pictures

2

Typical integration

3.9 h

Magnitude

4.5

visual

Size

7.2′

Distance

~5,900 ly

Best months

Feb–Apr

Low from the north

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.