#Puppis

NGC 2539

NGC 2539 is an intermediate age open cluster located in the northern part of the Puppis constellation that was discovered by William Herschel on January 31, 1785.  Out of all the hundreds of stars in the cluster there is estimated to be at least one triple system (Mermiliod and Mayor, 1989). I collected a total […]

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NGC 2439 | Astr 113

NGC 2439 is a young, open cluster of 824 stars in the Southern constellation Puppis. It was catalogued by Per Collinder in 1931 and has unusually low extinction leading some to argue that the cluster doesn’t exist at all Kaltcheva 2001. In order to study NGC 2439 I collected 15 images using the Prompt6 telescope, […]

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