NGC 2306 is a sparse, very loose object of very low C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a moderate^* distance, below the mid-plane, affected by low extinction. It is catalogued as an intermediate-age cluster (see Parameters). It is poorly studied in the literature, with no articles listed in the last 7 years.

(*): The parallax distance estimate (~4.92 kpc) differs significantly from the median photometric distance (~1.20 kpc).

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

Reference	Year	RA [deg]	DEC [deg]	Plx [mas]	pmRA [mas/yr]	pmDE [mas/yr]	Rv [km/s]
UCC	–	103.607	-7.185	0.203	0.066	0.625	87.289
Bica et al.	2019	103.646	-7.176	–	–	–	–
Loktin & Popova	2017	103.605	-7.202	–	0.923	-0.736	–
Dias et al.	2014	103.621	-7.203	–	2.19	-3.86	–
Piskunov et al.	2008	103.61	-7.217	–	–	–	–
Kharchenko et al.	2005	103.62	-7.22	–	-0.98	1.91	–

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