NGC 3766

Open Cluster NGC 3766 (= Lacaille III.7 = Melotte 107 = Collinder 248), in Centaurus

Right Ascension 11 : 36.1 (h:m)
Declination -61 : 37 (deg:m)
Distance 5.5 (kly)
Visual Brightness 5.3 (mag)
Apparent Dimension 12 (arc min)

The considerable southern open cluster NGC 3766 was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751-1752 from South Africa.


Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org)
Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

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Last Modification: 22 Mar 1998, 21:00 MET