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NGC 133

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When NGC 133 is up, how long it stays usable and when it is in season all depend on where you observe from. Set your site and this page adds tonight's answer and its year.

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The science

What you are looking at

In one sentence

Stars that formed together from one molecular cloud and are still loosely bound.

Class explainer for open cluster (SIMBAD classification).

The facts

NGC 133 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia. SIMBAD gives its distance as 3,308 pc (−311 pc / +311 pc) — ≈ 10,790 ly, measured by parallax from 4 measurements. The light reaching us from it now left it about 10,790 years ago, around the end of the last ice age. On the sky it spans 2.1′ — 7% of the full Moon's width. At that distance, that angle means it is roughly 7 light-years across. It shines at magnitude 9.4.

Sources: AstroBrain catalogue; CDS/SIMBAD astronomical database, Strasbourg (SIMBAD record NGC 133 · distance from 2021MNRAS.504..356D). Contains information from SIMBAD, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Download the SIMBAD-derived data.

For scale

Full Moon · 31′NGC 133 · 2.1′
Angular size, as it would sit on your sky.

7 ly

across — 2× the distance from the Sun to its nearest neighbour star (4.37 ly).

The same patch of sky in visible light

  • Sky image

    Observatory photos and open-licence sky surveys.

    Credits on each image.

Neighbours in the sky

  • NGC 1460.2° away
  • Sharpless 1770.9° away
  • Sharpless 1791.1° away
  • Sharpless 1751.4° away
  • LDN 12941.7° away
  • LDN 13011.7° away

Sky maths: apparent positions with refraction, one-minute steps; usable = full astronomical dark, at least 30° up and clear of your skyline. Survey images: CDS, Strasbourg (DSS2 and other surveys). Science: SIMBAD. The hours, heights and Moon on this page use no weather forecast; the rank is this target’s place in the Targets list, whose score also counts the cloud forecast when there is one.

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