Asteria — interactive night sky map
IC 2391 is a open cluster in the constellation Vela with an apparent magnitude of 2.5, spanning about 29 arcminutes. Under dark skies it can be spotted with the naked eye.
It is best placed in the evening sky around January. It is visible from the whole southern hemisphere and from northern latitudes up to about 37°N. It is circumpolar (never sets) south of latitude 37°S.