Lynga catalogue
Field Data
Cluster number (IAU) C1614-577
Old Cluster NGC
notation 6087
OCL number/Lund number 948 693
Right ascension (1950.0) 16 14.7
Declination (1950.0) -57 47
10 year prec. RA/Dec .83 -1.4
Galactic longitude 327.76
Galactic latitude -5.40
Sky survey SERC
Chart type and number SR 137
Centre of chart (RA,Dec) 16 28 -60
Pos. on chart x,y mm 267 287
Tr. cl. (ref. 19/320=a/b) II 2 m :b
Membership (320) 40
Angular diameter (320) 14
Selected angular diameter 12 ( 255)
Distance, weight 891
Distance, reference 900 ( 50)
E(B-V), v=var. 0.175
Turn-off col.,weight (jdl) -.16 w= 4
Derived log(age) 7.976
log(age), reference 7.74 ( 461)
Fe/H (jdl) -0.01
Radial velocity, weight 1 w= 3
References 475 /
used by
Janes, Duke
and Lynga (jdl)
Number of member 4 Be stars
stars with 1 Cepheid
peculiar
spectral
types
References for 411 / 338
peculiar
stars
Total V magnitude 5.4 ( 422)
Integrated B-V (422) .45
Number of obs. stars (422) 349
Richness class (265) 3
Earliest sp. cl. (50,37) B 5 B 5
Mag of brightest star (50) 8.0
Galactic R and z 7750 -85
Linear diameter 3.1
Comment