page_title: V533 Carinae
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: V533 Carinae / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: This wide-field image shows the patch of sky around the star cluster NGC 3572 and its associated gas clouds. This view was created from photographs forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The spikes and blue circles around the stars in this picture are artifacts of the telescope and the photographic process.
context_page_description: V533 Carinae is a white A-type supergiant variable star with a mean apparent magnitude of +4.59 in the constellation Carina. It is over 10,000 light years from Earth.
context_section_description: V533 Carinae is found near the Carina Nebula on the edge of the constellation Carina towards Crux.  It is a member of Collinder 240, a sparse open cluster sometimes considered to be a portion of the richer nearby cluster NGC 3572.  Together with the small clusters Hogg 10 and 11, they are all part of the Carina OB2 stellar association.
  V533 Carinae is the brightest star in the region.  The other bright stars in NGC 3572 are hot young stars such as HD 97166 and all the clusters in the region are only a few million years old.
  V533 Carinae is classified as a double star with the companion being a magnitude 11.5 star 21.7 arc-seconds away.
caption: The Carina Nebula is at the very right edge of the frame (north is up) and V533 Car is the brightest star shown, near the open cluster NGC 3572.
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