| Type | Open Cluster |
|---|---|
| Magnitude | 1.9 |
| Size | 50' |
| RA (2000) | 10h 42' 57.4" |
| Dec (2000) | 64° 23' 39" S |
| Constellation | Carina |
| Description | ! vvL, vB, Cl, incl Theta Car |
Andrew Cooper
13 Mar 2010 Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
15cm f/5 Newtonian, Primero @ 22x
A coarse cluster over a degree across, quite bright, a few dozen stars arranged in several clumps, a nice object for the 6" RFT, not as impressive as the Pleiades despite the moniker, obvious to the unaided eye
Andrew Cooper
5 Apr 2007 Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
15cm f/5 Newtonian, Primero @ 35x
Large! Bright! conspicuous to the unaided eye, a large open cluster dominated by a dozen or so bright blue stars over a 1° area, the similarity to M45 The Pleiades is obvious, resulting in the moniker Southern Pleiades
Drawings, descriptions and CCD photos are copyright Andrew Cooper unless otherwise noted, no usage without permission. Use for non-profit and educational reasons is generally given on request.
Positional and some physical information is from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Additional object data from the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
The Digitized Sky Survey was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope.
Dark nebulae data from E.E. Barnard, A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Ed. Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927
Object descriptions of Rev. Webb from Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes sixth edition, Rev. T.W. Webb, 1917, edited by Rev T.E.Espin.