The Theta Carinae open star cluster (IC 2602, also known as the Southern Pleiades; mag 1.9) will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 3 March it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.
From Brasília , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 19:11 (GMT-03), 21° above your south-eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 00:10, 41° above your southern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 05:32, 18° above your south-western horizon.
At a declination of 64°23'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 5°N.
At magnitude 1.9, IC2602 is visible to the naked eye, but best viewed through a pair of binoculars.
The position of IC2602 is as follows:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Magnitude | Angular Size |
| IC2602 | 10h42m50s | 64°23'S | Carina | 1.9 | 48'00" |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
The sky on 3 Mar 2025
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All times shown in GMT-03.
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
Image credit
© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)