INTRODUCTION AND REPRESENTATION NGC 2270 is an open cluster located in the constellation Unicorn [The genitive form of Monoceros, used in star names, is Monocerotis.], and was first identified by William Herschel, a German-British astronomer, in 1786. The cluster is estimated to be located around 1,400 parsecs (approximately 4,570 light-years) away from our solar system. […]
Read more "NGC 2270"Intro NGC 2183 is a reflection nebula locate in the constellation Monoceros, discovered in 1850 by an Irish engineer named Bindon Stoney. It is located near the celestial equator and is visible from both hemispheres at certain times throughout the year, NGC 2183 has a B magnitude of 15.15 and can be seen through a telescope […]
Read more "NGC 2183"Ngc 2129 the open star cluster near the equator located in the gemini constellation it was discovered by William Hersche l in 1782. Located in the local spiral approximately 7200 lght years away. The cluster is relatively young with an estimated age of 10 million years. The cluster itself has a diameter of 10.4 […]
Read more "NGC 2129"Background and Figures of NGC 3330 NGC 3330 is an open cluster that is located 2920 light years away from Earth. James Dunlop discovered this bright and beautiful mass of stars on April 29, 1826. It is 5.1 light-years wide and yet it is made up of less than 50 stars. It is calculated to […]
Read more "NGC 3330 – Vela’s Sparkling Center"NGC 4372 is an intriguing globular cluster situated in the southern constellation of Musca within our Milky Way galaxy. Its detection was first reported by the notable Scottish astronomer James Dunlop in 1826, and later, in 1834, it was observed by John Herschel. In a recent study, Kharchenko et al. (2013) presented an exhaustive […]
Read more "Globular Cluster: NGC 4372"NGC 2437 is an open cluster in the Southern constellation of Puppis It’s thought to be about 300 million years old. Charles Messier discovered it in 1771, and it contains an estimated 500 stars with a total mass of 453 solar masses. To investigate and comprehend NGC 2437’s relationships between colours, brightness, and the age […]
Read more "NGC 2437"NGC 5897 is a globular cluster it is located in the constellation Libra. It is located about 41000 light years away from us. It is not a messier Object and thus does not have a Messier Number. I first looked at NGC 5897 in an Astronomy class at the U of S. Me and another […]
Read more "NGC 5897"NGC 2244 is a star cluster located in the constellation of Monoceros, Latin for “unicorn”, approximately 5,000 light years away from Earth. It was discovered by John Flamsteed in 1690. NGC 2244 is part of a larger structure known as the Rosette Nebula, a massive cloud of gas and dust that spans over 130 light-years. […]
Read more "NGC 2244 A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula"INTRODUCTION NGC 2251 is an intermediate age open cluster located in the northern constellation of Camelopardalis. It was first discovered by William Herschel in 1786. The cluster has an estimated age of around 630 million years and is located at a distance of about 3,200 light-years from Earth. To study NGC 2251 and investigate its properties, […]
Read more "NGC 2251"NGC 4852 is an open cluster which is located in Centaurus. NGC 4852 is not a long way from the Coalsack nebula which contains NGC 4755. From the recent photometric survey, NGC 4852 is estimated that it is about 200-250 million years old. The location of the NGC 4852 is estimated to be 1.1 kpcs […]
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