Carina Car
Carina is one of the 88 constellations, covering 494 square degrees of the sky (34th largest). It is highest at midnight in January and best in the evening sky in February and March.
12 of its best-known objects have a page of their own here.
Facts
| Abbreviation | Car |
|---|---|
| Size | 494 square degrees (34th largest of the 88; the full Moon covers about 0.2) |
| Middle (J2000) | 8h 46m, −63° |
| Highest at midnight | January (in the evening, around 8–10 pm: February and March) |
| How high | From India (about 20° N) its middle climbs to about 7° above the horizon; from 50° N it never rises. |
| Pages here | 12 objects |
Nebulae
4Star clusters
2Stars
5Other objects
1Brightest NGC and IC objects
OpenNGC| Object | Type | Magnitude | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGC 3532 (Wishing Well Cluster) | Open star cluster | 3 | 12′ |
| NGC 3372 (Carina Nebula) | HII region (glowing hydrogen) | 3 | 120′ |
| NGC 2516 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 3.8 | 24.3′ |
| NGC 3114 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 4.2 | 12.3′ |
| IC 2581 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 4.3 | 6′ |
| NGC 3293 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 4.7 | 5.1′ |
| NGC 3572 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 6.6 | 4.1′ |
| NGC 3324 (on the map) | Star cluster with nebula | 6.7 | 4.8′ |
| NGC 3247 (on the map) | HII region (glowing hydrogen) | 7.6 | 5′ |
| NGC 3519 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 7.7 | 4.8′ |
| Mel101 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 8 | 8.4′ |
| IC 2714 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 8.2 | 7.2′ |
Smaller magnitudes are brighter; the faintest stars the eye sees are about 6. The full Moon is about 31′ across.
Data: IAU constellation boundaries (Roman 1987) · OpenNGC (Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data sources & credits