Across much of the world, the Wishing Well open star cluster (NGC 3532; mag 3.0) in Carina will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 9 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 Cambridge , however, it is not observable because it lies so far south that it never rises above the horizon.

At a declination of 58°46'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much north of 11°N.

At magnitude 3.0, NGC3532 is tricky to make out with the naked eye except from a dark site, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of NGC3532 is as follows:

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 9 Mar 2022

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.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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