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    NGC 3532

    NGC 3532
    NGC 3532. Image credit: Walter Gröning
    A spectacular open cluster in the constellation Carina with an estimated age of 200-350 million years. Its popular name, the Wishing Well Cluster, comes from the resemblance of its stars to coins shimmering at the bottom of a Wishing Well. It lies only 3° from the remarkable star Eta Carinae and its associated nebula. NGC 3532 was first recorded by Nicolas Lacaille in 1752.


    Visual magnitude 3.0
    Angular diameter 55'
    Distance 1,300 light-years (400 pc)
    Position R.A. 11h 05m 33s,
    Dec. -58° 43.8'
    Other designations C 1104-584, Cl VDBH 109, OCl 839.0


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