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Proper Name	None
Messier Number	None
NGC/IC Number	NGC 1502
Other Designations	Collinder 45
Constellation	Camelopardalis
Right Ascension	4h 7m 49s
Declination	+62° 19' 55"
Distance	c.3,800 light years c.1,200 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +6.90 Absolute: -3.10
Diameter	Apparent: 8' Actual: 8 light years
Number of Stars	c. 160
Optimum Visibility	December (Usually visible from northern latitudes)

The bright star in the central regions of the Collinder 45 cluster is the eclipsing binary SZ Camelopardalis. This variable star does not appear to be part of the Collinder 45 cluster, but rather to lie on the same line of sight. Though it is very distant at approximately 2,800 light years, it is nonetheless in the foreground of the even more distant open cluster (estimated to lie about a thousand light years beyond SZ Camelopardalis). Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

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