Melotte 227

(Collinder 411; OCL 918; ESO 025 18; MWSC 3299)

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C3
N_50
r_50
CC 26 6.3
Summary

Melotte 227 is a poorly populated, very loose object of low C3 quality. It is located at a large distance from the Sun, well below the mid-plane. It is rarely studied in the literature, with no articles listed in the last 6 years.

Warning: the low UTI value and no obvious signs of duplication (C_dup=1.0) indicates that this is quite probably an asterism, moving group, or artifact, and not a real open cluster.

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Positions

Reference RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv
Kharchenko et al. (2012) 304.2 -79.04 4.61 -7.3
Bica et al. (2019) 304.07 -78.963
           
UCC 304.028 -78.981 0.186 1.859 -5.498
Galactocentric position Galactocentric position diagram

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Estimated members

Melotte 227 UCC

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Fundamental parameters

Reference Values
Kharchenko et al. (2012) e_bv=0.062, distance=2218, log_age=9.7

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Cluster region map