Lynga catalogue
Field Data
Cluster number (IAU) C0839-461
Old Cluster Pismis
notation 8
OCL number/Lund number 755 473
Right ascension (1950.0) 8 39.8
Declination (1950.0) -46 06
10 year prec. RA/Dec .33 -2.1
Galactic longitude 265.08
Galactic latitude -2.63
Sky survey SERC
Chart type and number J 260
Centre of chart (RA,Dec) 8 52 -45
Pos. on chart x,y mm 285 111
Tr. cl. (ref. 19/320=a/b) II 2 p :b
Membership (320) 25
Angular diameter (320) 3.0
Selected angular diameter 2.0 ( 382)
Distance, weight 1312
Distance, reference 1400 ( 64)
E(B-V), v=var. 0.706
Turn-off col.,weight (jdl) -.20 w= 3
Derived log(age) 7.427
log(age), reference 7.50 ( 174)
Fe/H (jdl)
Radial velocity, weight
References 174 / 501
used by
Janes, Duke
and Lynga (jdl)
Number of member
stars with
peculiar
spectral
types
References for
peculiar
stars
Total V magnitude 9.5 ( 422)
Integrated B-V (422) .60
Number of obs. stars (422) 25
Richness class (265) 1
Earliest sp. cl. (50,37)
Mag of brightest star (50) 10.0
Galactic R and z 8740 -66
Linear diameter .8
Comment D