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NGC 2169

Open cluster in the constellation Orion

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1047283 ↗
Source-derived summary

NGC 2169 is an open cluster of stars in the Constellation of Orion. It was possibly discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and independently discovered by William Herschel on October 15, 1784. NGC 2169 is at a distance of about 3,600 light years away from Earth. It is nicknamed "The '37' Cluster" due to its striking resemblance to the numerals "37". The cluster is composed of components Collinder 38, a I3pn open cluster, and Collinder 83, a III3m open cluster.

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The public source identifies “NGC 2169” as open cluster in the constellation Orion. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around cluster, constellation and Orion.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1654, 1784—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with cluster, constellation and Orion providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1047283. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1654 and 1784.

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This entry incorporates text from “NGC 2169” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.