* Astronomy

NGC 2175 (also known as OCL 476 or Cr 84) is a magnitude +6.8 open cluster embedded in a diffusion nebula, and located about 6,350 light years away in the constellation Orion.
The surrounding nebula is catalogued as Sharpless 2-252.
There is some equivocation in the use of the identifiers NGC 2174 and NGC 2175.
The cluster was discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna with probably a 1-inch 20x Galilean telescope in the castle of his patron Carlo Tomasi et Caro, in Palma di Montechiaro sometime before 1654, and independently discovered by German astronomer Karl Christian Bruhns at the the Berlin Observatory in 1857.

RA: 06h 9.8m 00s, Dec: +20° 19' 00"

Image captured with a 8" f5 reflector and Canon EOS 350D.