Hi all, it seems that classification systems and catalogues aren't perfect.
NED and Simbad classes NGC 2034 as an "association of stars".
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-b...o#Attributes_0
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/si...&QueryType=ned
Perhaps a nebulous look or glow is a cloud of unresolved stars. When does an "association" become a "cluster"?