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.