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NGC 2052

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When NGC 2052 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

The facts

NGC 2052 is an object in Dorado. SIMBAD gives no distance for it, so its true size and light-travel time can't be worked out here. On the sky it spans 18′ — 58% of the full Moon's width.

Sources: AstroBrain catalogue.

For scale

Full Moon · 31′NGC 2052 · 18′
Angular size, as it would sit on your sky.

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

  • Ghost Head Nebula0.2° away
  • NGC 20480.2° away
  • NGC 20370.2° away
  • NGC 20790.2° away
  • NGC 20780.2° away
  • NGC 20770.2° 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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