Editing IC 2602 (section)

{{Short description|Open cluster in the constellation Carina}}
{{Infobox open cluster
|name=IC 2602
|image=[[File:The Southern Pleiades (IC 2602).jpg|250px]]
|caption=
|epoch=[[J2000]]
|constellation=[[Carina (constellation)|Carina]]|ra={{RA|10|42|57.5}}<ref name=ned>{{cite web|url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=IC+2602&extend=no&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES|title=NED results for object IC 2602|access-date=23 January 2017|publisher=[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] / [[Infrared Processing and Analysis Center]] }}</ref>
|dec={{DEC|-64|23|39}}
|dist_pc=149 pc
|dist_ly=486 ly<ref name="SIMBAD"/>
|appmag_v=1.9<ref name="seds">{{cite web |title=IC 2602 - SEDS Messier Database |url=https://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.cgi?IC+2602 |access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref>
|size_v=50{{prime}} × 50{{prime}}
|mass_msol=
|age=13.7 M.yr<sup>−1</sup>
|notes=
|names=Theta Carinae Cluster, [[Caldwell catalogue|Caldwell]] 102, [[Collinder catalogue|Cr]] 229, [[Philibert Jacques Melotte|Mel]] 102, VDBH 103<ref name=SIMBAD>{{cite simbad|title=IC 2602}}</ref>
}}
'''IC 2602''' (also known as the '''Southern Pleiades''', '''Theta Carinae Cluster''', or '''Caldwell 102''')<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Meara |first=Stephen James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=evkODQAAQBAJ&dq=deep+sky+companions+caldwell+objects+Southern+Pleiades%2C+Theta+Carinae+Cluster%2C+or+Caldwell+102%29&pg=PA467 |title=Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects |date=2016-09-26 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-316-03353-1 |language=en}}</ref> is an [[open cluster]] in the [[constellation]] [[Carina (constellation)|Carina]]. Discovered by [[Abbe Lacaille]] in 1751 from [[South Africa]],<ref name=Jones_1969>{{cite journal
 | title=The search for the nebulae - VI
 | last=Jones | first=K. G.
 | journal=Journal of the British Astronomical Association
 | volume=79 | pages=213–222 | date=March 1969
 | bibcode=1969JBAA...79..213J
}}</ref> the cluster is easily visible to the [[Naked eye|unaided eye]], and is one of the nearest star clusters, centred about 149 parsecs (486 [[Light-year|light-years]]) away from [[Earth]].