Registry · deep sky

NGC 2972

OpenCluster SIMBAD OpC 67 papers

harvesting The full record is being pulled from the archives right now — measurement tables, the Gaia row, catalogue photometry. This page will fill itself in.

Right ascension: 09h 40m 13.90s
Declination: −50° 19′ 34.0″
Galactic l, b: 274.69, 1.758
Magnitude V: 9.9
Parallax: 0.483 mas
Redshift z: 6.818e-05
Radial velocity: 20.44 km/s
Proper motion: -5.085, 2.489 mas/yr
Angular size: 5.2′ × 5.2′

Also known as

6 identifiers

C 0938-501IRAS 09386-5006LISC 2203NGC 2972Cl VDBH 76[KPS2012] MWSC 1699

In the same field

within 9 arcmin · wider search

Object	Type	Separation	V
NGC 2972 11	Star	27.41″	12.09
NGC 2972 3	Star	32.76″	12.12
NGC 2972 12	Star	39.43″	13.38
CD-49 4586	SB*	140.8″	9.41
HD 83917	Star	432″	8.8
PM J09399-5027	SB*	490.3″	11.49

Provenance

where this card came from

Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
Seeded from the bulk archive load; no per-object fetch yet.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/ngc-2972 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.