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Top left is NE. Image width is about 15 arc min
Image and text © 1992-2002, Anglo-Australian Observatory, photograph by David Malin.
Messier saw this fine open cluster in 1780, indeed it is hard to miss, being almost 30 arc minutes in diameter. The cluster is about 2500 light years away and is among the oldest open clusters.
Main caption still to be drafted. Click here for bigger image.
Entry from NGC 2000.0 (R.W. Sinnott, Ed.) © Sky Publishing Corporation, 1988