NGC 2244

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0.93 UTI
0.9
CN
1.0
Cdens
0.75
CC3
1.0
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members) 5.7 [arcmin]
  • CN 0.9 Very rich
  • Cdens 1.0 Very dense
  • CC3 0.75 High quality
  • Clit 1.0 Very well-studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

NGC 2244 is a very rich, very dense object of high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a relatively close distance, near the mid-plane, affected by moderate extinction. It is catalogued as a massive, near-solar metallicity, very young cluster, but with a large variance across recent sources for the metallicity parameter (see Parameters). It is very well-studied in the literature.

Note: This object shares a very small percentage of members with a later reported entry. See table with shared members information.

Relatively close Moderate extinction Massive Near-solar metallicity Very young

Almeida et al. (2025): Mass determination: intermediate fit. Isochrone match: intermediate fit. Silver sample.

Cavallo et al. (2024): Gold sample.

Data

Reference Year RA [deg] DEC [deg] Plx [mas] pmRA [mas/yr] pmDE [mas/yr] Rv [km/s]
UCC 98.012 4.908 0.653 -1.708 0.234 27.148
Almeida et al. 2025 98.088 4.917
Zhang et al. 2024 97.985 4.927
Hunt & Reffert 2024 97.985 4.927 0.657 -1.737 0.253 31.885
Celli et al. 2024 98.045 4.914
Cavallo et al. 2024 97.993 4.905 0.659
Hunt & Reffert 2023 97.985 4.927 0.657 -1.737 0.253 31.885
Jaehnig et al. 2021 98.029 4.917 0.681 -1.734 0.221
Rain et al. 2021 98.045 4.914 0.617 -1.598 0.179
Dias et al. 2021 98.088 4.917 0.605 -1.563 0.186 92.271
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 98.045 4.914 0.617 -1.598 0.179
Dias et al. 2019 98.046 4.914 0.617 -1.598 0.179 102.43
Soubiran et al. 2018 98.045 4.914 75.18
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 98.045 4.914 0.617 -1.598 0.179
Loktin & Popova 2017 97.98 4.942 -0.04 -1.04 26.2
Piskunov et al. 2008 97.969 4.943
Kharchenko et al. 2007 97.98 4.94 0.32 26.16
Piskunov et al. 2007 97.969 4.943
Kharchenko et al. 2005 97.98 4.94 -1.42 -0.32 26.16
Kharchenko et al. 2003 97.99 4.94 -0.95 -0.3
Chen et al. 2003 98.087 4.891 -0.65 0.67 36.6
Dias et al. 2002 97.979 4.942 -0.65 0.67 30.67
Dambis 1999 97.979 4.942

💡 Note: The UCC values are estimated from its identified members.

Reference Year Dist [kpc] Av [mag] DAv [mag] Age [Myr] [Fe/H] [dex] Mass [Msun] Bfr BSS
Almeida et al. 2025 1.25 1.57 13 705
Zhang et al. 2024 -0.127*
Hunt & Reffert 2024 1388*
Celli et al. 2024 13 2097
Cavallo et al. 2024 1.24 1.28 4 0.260
Hunt & Reffert 2023 1.42 1.63 2.43 4
Jaehnig et al. 2021 1.45*
Rain et al. 2021 1.55 1.46 2 0
Dias et al. 2021 1.25 1.57 13 -0.214
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 1.48 1.46 13
Dias et al. 2019 1.30 1.36 8 -1.112
Soubiran et al. 2018 1.55
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 1.55
Loktin & Popova 2017 1.45 1.44 8
Piskunov et al. 2008 1.45 1.24 5 1422*
Piskunov et al. 2007 1.45 1.24 5 354
Kharchenko et al. 2005 1.45 1.24 5
Kharchenko et al. 2003 1.45 1.24
Chen et al. 2003 1.45 0
Dias et al. 2002 1.66 1.46 2
Dambis 1999 1.43 1.50 3

💡 Note: The parameters are sometimes transformed from their original values to match the format of the columns shown here, see FAQ. The columns DAv, Bfr, BSS correspond to differential extinction, binary fraction, and blue stragglers, respectively. BSS values can be listed as fractions or integers.
(*): indicates that this parameter is assigned more than one value in the corresponding reference.

Cluster % RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv UTI
NGC 2239 3.1 97.76 4.94 0.67 -1.83 0.03 24.06 0.3

💡 Note: The % column shows the percentage of members that NGC 2244 shares with each listed object.

Visualization

Galactocentric position diagram

💡 Note: How are the galactocentric plots generated? See FAQ.