Lynga catalogue
Field Data
Cluster number (IAU) C0811-056
Old Cluster NGC
notation 2548
OCL number/Lund number 584 439
Right ascension (1950.0) 8 11.3
Declination (1950.0) -5 39
10 year prec. RA/Dec .49 -1.7
Galactic longitude 227.92
Galactic latitude 15.37
Sky survey POSS
Chart type and number O 702
Centre of chart (RA,Dec) 8 -6
Pos. on chart x,y mm 86 210
Tr. cl. (ref. 19/320=a/b) I 3 r :b
Membership (320) 80
Angular diameter (320) 29
Selected angular diameter 54 ( 315)
Distance, weight 769
Distance, reference 610 ( 50)
E(B-V), v=var. 0.031
Turn-off col.,weight (jdl) .00 w= 3
Derived log(age) 8.557
log(age), reference 8.48 ( 337)
Fe/H (jdl) +0.08
Radial velocity, weight
References 209 /
used by
Janes, Duke
and Lynga (jdl)
Number of member
stars with
peculiar
spectral
types
References for
peculiar
stars
Total V magnitude 5.8 ( 422)
Integrated B-V (422) .31
Number of obs. stars (422) 37
Richness class (265) 1
Earliest sp. cl. (50,37) A A
Mag of brightest star (50) 8.0
Galactic R and z 8910 166
Linear diameter 9.6
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