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open cluster in Carina

Key facts

Right ascension
10 02 42
Declination
−60 ° 06 ′ 0 ″
Apparent magnitude v
+ 4.2
Other designations
Cr 215
Constellation
Carina

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
open cluster
Constellation
Carina
Distance from Earth
911
Image
NGC 3114 Eguivar-crop.jpg
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epoch
J2000.0
catalog code
[KPS2012] MWSC 1749
Commons category
NGC 3114
discoverer or inventor
James Dunlop
time of discovery or invention
1826-05-08
apparent magnitude
4.2
right ascension
150.6500
declination
-60.1200
radial velocity
-3.5
metallicity
0.05
right ascension component of proper motion
-7.09
declination component of proper motion
4.03
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3114 is a sparse open cluster which is projected onto the outskirts of the Carina complex.

Because of the high number of field stars from the disc of the Milky Way, it is very difficult object to study as this contamination makes its size ambiguous.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3114” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.