You can visit the Astromancer link here My chosen star cluster is NGC 6025, or otherwise known as its designation in the Caldwell catalogue – Caldwell 95. Amongst the Caldwell designation, there have been many other categorizations of this star from Collinder, Melotte, Lacaille III, and Dunlop. (Wiki, 2024) NGc 6025 is a intermediate open […]
Read more "NGC 6025 – Caldwell 95"NGC 2112, or Collinder 76, is an old open cluster in the Orion constellation. Since it is located near the celestial equator, it is partially visible from both hemispheres during certain times of the year. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1786. It is believed that NGC 2112 is one of the oldest open […]
Read more "NGC 2112"NGC 5281 is a young age cluster in the southwest constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751-1752. It can be seen with the naked eye under dark skies as a 6th magnitude star, making it an accessible object for amateur astronomers without the need for telescopes. The cluster’s brightest stars […]
Read more "NGC 5281"NGC 6025, also known as Caldwell 95, is an intermediate open cluster located  in the Southern constellation Triangulum Australe. It was discovered in 1751 by Abbe Lacaille during his expedition to the Cape of Good Hope. In a study done by M.J.Rain et al., (2021), a new Gaia-based catalogue of blue stragglers in open clusters was […]
Read more "NGC 6025"NGC 2669 is an intermediate age cluster approximately 8600 light years away from Earth in the Southern constellation, Vela. Vela means “sails” in Latin and was given this name due to formerly being part of the constellation Argo Navis, or “The Ship Argo”. Its position in the upper section of Argo is representative of sails […]
Read more "NGC 2669 Cluster"The Gateway to the Seagull Nebula(IC 2177), NGC 2335 is an open star cluster first discovered by William Herschel in 1785. This cluster is situated in a faint constellation near the equator, named Monoceros and is home to about 25 stars. It is an intermediate cluster with an age of about 130 million years, located approximately […]
Read more "NGC 2335"NGC 2910 NGC 2910 is a young open cluster located in the Vela constellation in the southern sky. It was first discovered in 1834 by British astronomer John Herschel, and is considered an I2p cluster in the Trumpler open cluster classification system. This means the stars are strongly concentrated, they have an average range in […]
Read more "NGC 2910"NGC 5286 is a globular cluster that is 35000 light years away, located in the Southern constellation Centaurus. Also known as Caldwell 84, this cluster was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826, while he was in Australia. According to NASA, it is among the oldest globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. It is speculated to be […]
Read more "NGC 5286"NGC 4372, also designated as Caldwell 108, is a prominent globular cluster situated within the southern constellation of Musca. This celestial object was first cataloged by the astronomer James Dunlop on April 30, 1826. NGC 4372 lies in the outer regions of the Milky Way’s galactic plane, southwest of the Îł Muscae (Gamma Muscae). Research […]
Read more "NGC 4372"NGC 3960 is located in the southern constellation Vela. NGC 3960 is a vibrant laboratory for astronomers studying the lifecycle of stars in the Milky Way. It is notable for its rich stellar population and its significance in the study of stellar evolution. I started this research by using the Skynet telescopes more precisely PROMPT-MO-1 […]
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