NGC 2164 is a 10th-magnitude open cluster in the Dorado

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. The celestial object was discovered on September 27, 1826, by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Its apparent size is 2.5 arcmin. It is located in the

Large Magellanic Cloud The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), or Nubecula Major, is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (≈160,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the ...

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* Open clusters ESO objects

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Large Magellanic Cloud Dorado Astronomical objects discovered in 1826 {{star-cluster-stub