This approximately true-colour image was created from twelve images taken in January 1997 with the Burrell Schmidt Telescope of the Warner and Swasey Observatory at Case Western Reserve University on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona. The study found that NGC 2158 is even further away than previously thought, at a distance of about 15,290 light-years. The study found that NGC 2158 is even further away than previously thought, at a distance of about 15,290 light years. It is angularly located immediately southwest of the open star cluster Messier 35 and is estimated to be about 2 .
NGC 2158 is an open star cluster in the constellation of the Twins.
